Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story… — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
“now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.” — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and… — Uma Nnenna Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong… — Sai Marie Johnson Copy Share Image
Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“Lewis Carroll. He was an odd one. Real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Completely denied having anything to do with the Alice… — Mike Tucker Copy Share Image
“The realization that a decline in the moral state impedes the flowering of literature is a feeling unique to the Jewish people.… — Rabbi Kook Copy Share Image
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Fiction writers have long turned to winter to advance bluer palettes, slicker surfaces, and sharper contrasts. The sky darkens, the wind picks… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“A lot of aspiring writers are actually very talented and just have to continue polishing their craft till opportunity knocks. All writers… — Myne Whitman Copy Share Image
“All writers are, somewhere or other, mad. Not les grands fous, like Rimbaud, but mad, yes, mad. Because we do not believe… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
“If you cannot or will not imagine the results of your actions, there’s no way you can act morally or responsibly. Little… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.” — Brian A. McBride Copy Share Image
“The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner. — Phillip Knightley Copy Share Image
It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
“She has a beautiful heart that plays a euphonious symphony. She is the Zahir that touches your Soul.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write. — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
Hollywood has made a big push to be more supportive of female writers and directors. — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. — John Banville Copy Share Image
A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
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