“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.” — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
I've taken a lot of crap. That's just the way life is. There are going to be writers who like you and… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books – it was the best… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends,… — Dorian Missick Copy Share Image
Let Catholic writers take care when defending the cause of the proletariat and the poor not to use language calculated to inspire… — Bible Copy Share Image
Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Rigorous extrapolation, a gosh-wow love of gadgets, and mystical adventures in strange and mysterious places; every major stream in speculative fiction today… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The first thing I would say to young writers is, "Don't do it, unless you can't stand not to do it." And… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life… — Bryant A. Loney Copy Share Image
You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives open. That alone… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
“Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.” — Mark W Boyer Copy Share Image
I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox, somehow. — Gail Simone 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
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
“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
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon 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
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
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
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
