You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more. — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers. — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
If someone does not see you as beautiful, this does not mean that you are not beautiful, but rather that they simply… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail. — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In terms of people who want to be writers, I wish more people knew how much work it was. — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
“And no matter how much I want to encourage the man or woman trying for the first time to write seriously, I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“It seems to me, alas, that if you can so thoroughly dissect your children who are still to be born, you don’t… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society.… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“The sense of pleasure you get creating something that doesn’t exist is inexplicable. I can never explain this joy in words. I… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Dealing with politically-engaged writers of color like Abdellatif Laâbi and Rashid Boudjedra - who ran away from school aged sixteen to fight… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“We writers are the worst kind of cruel, Because we worship our own stories and poems, And what human can compete with… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and… — Cirilo F. Bautista Copy Share Image
“If you call yourself an "authoress" on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and your children are ugly.… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate. — Michael Mosley Copy Share Image
“i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Everyone now, not just writers, creates a written, published persona on a daily (hourly) basis. Artifice abounds.” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“It's been said of writers that if we don't have to write, we ought not to.” — ChiLibris Copy Share Image
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing? — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
They have given me the imprimatur of a serious writer, which I knew I was but could not claim publicly until they… — Edward Koch Copy Share Image
“Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.” — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
“Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
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