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
I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“You call me at 12am or 3am I will pick up your call. Once I make a commitment, I don't go back!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The whole world of 'Game of Thrones' was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot'… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Writers need to be tough. This is not for the weak of will. And we have to realize that, yeah, it's never… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
“I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“You may be a serious writer if …. 10. your hard drive is littered with random notes and story ideas … but… — Kathy Disanto Copy Share Image
“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Just because they write something In this font And break apart their lines To rhyme To dramatize To imitate Doesn’t make what… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
I guess when I was younger, I'd have assumed that in 2008 music would be full of great writers following in the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I… — Vera Nazarian 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
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
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
“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
“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
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't exactly people, they are a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
“When you smile, it’s more than the sunshine. I can see all of the colours of the rainbow.” — Jawedquotes Copy Share Image
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator…” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
