I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you? — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
You have a voice don't be afraid to speak, live through your pen and create a legacy. — Michael Kilby Copy Share Image
“Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow … we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains,… — Robert Krulwich Copy Share Image
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Writers are either bullfighters, who risk all for art... or bullshitters, who make fake passes in an empty ring. To be a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction.… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
