Writers Quotes · Page 30

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

— Dom DeLuise

As writers we need to crack open language.

— Natalie Goldberg

“Death is almost never timely, even for the old.”

— Christopher Bram

It's a dream for all writers to write for Broadway.

— Richard M. Sherman

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

— Lloyd Alexander

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

— Lois Lowry

There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.

— Jonathan Evison

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

— Irwin Shaw

David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.

— Steve Schirripa

There are few writers who, if they publish anything, I am going to buy it: Ian McEwan, Scott Turow, Pat Conroy -…

— John Grisham

I've been influenced by so many different writers along the way - from Charles Dickens, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, John D. McDonald,…

— Jim Starlin

Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers…

— Kirby Wright

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by progress. They became traveling salesmen…

— Anatole Broyard

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls "the…

— William Styron

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my…

— Diablo Cody

Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The…

— Will Hobbs

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled…

— Robertson Davies

“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All…

— Pamela Paul

“There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he…

— Charles Bukowski

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been…

— Charles Bukowski

“They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish…

— Shannon L. Alder

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its…

— Avi

“You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create…

— Anne Lamott

“Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.”

— Gary Reilly

“...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how…

— John Geddes

All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised.

— Kanika Dhillon

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs

— Ann Landers

“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

— Justin Cronin

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I…

— Junot Diaz

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

— Caroline Leavitt

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

— Erma Bombeck

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

— Niall Williams

“Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.”

— Vita Sackville-West