What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year. — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds -- can actually be out of their minds while caught in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas,… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another.… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and is even said to have been used… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in… — Chuck Inglish Copy Share Image
“...at some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at… — Scott F. Falkner Copy Share Image
“...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper,… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image