There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
“I was smarter than him because I had a pen and God was my writer.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The pen may be mightier than the sword, but no one in Brave Heart carried one.~M.J. McGuire — MJ McGuire Copy Share Image
Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I am a writer and things which don't happen in real world, happen in my world.” — Amay Saxena Copy Share Image
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often… — Marta McDowell Copy Share Image
“The distinguished dead are clay in the hands of writers, and chance determines the shapes that their characters assume in the books… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in… — Lisa Washington Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“Many earnest young writers with a flow of adjectives and a passion for detail have attempted to describe the quiet of a… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
One thing I learned that I didn't know before was that I can write. Because I think Glenn and myself, when we… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers. — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
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