I'm slightly in awe of writers, such as Sophie Hannah, who follow outlines. — Tana French Copy Share Image
“The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...” — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
“You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they… — Buffy Andrews Copy Share Image
We definitely need to give so much more importance, relevance, pay, glory to the writers because they are really the backbone of… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Academic writers are bad writers for three reasons. First, they want to sound smart. “If the water is dark,” goes a German… — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Everyone can write his own story, but no one can write your story The story of your life, so be thankful of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted. "Turgid but grammatical. And,… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
Very often I'm told that my heart's cold. That I'm the type to let my eyes speak what my mouth won't. That… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
They say theres a fine line between genius and insanity. If a man thinks he can write, does that make him genius… — John Miller Copy Share Image
I could never write about the sort of people John Cheever or John Updike or even Margaret Atwood write about. I don't… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.' — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
