“Writers don't sleep. Writers keep writing in their heads while they're dreaming.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers… — Sue Naegle Copy Share Image
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“All great writers share one thing in common: They finished their books.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different. — Rene Russo Copy Share Image
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Back pushed against the wall. Hearts shattered like broken glass. The rain's dropping harder than ever like the mood(s) of Sylvia Plath. — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers,… — Zoe Foster Blake Copy Share Image
I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it;… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
“Writers have come to master nearly every trade. They are inventors and entrepreneurs of character, plot, and dialogue. They are the eager… — Garrett Dennert Copy Share Image
For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Ah the dreams of being a writer… They always smell of old research books and several cups of coffee.” — Laís Queiroz Copy Share Image
There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers. — Joachim Frank Copy Share Image
There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact. — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.” — Julie Rodelli Copy Share Image
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Writing a love song for a girl is no good...but writing one for a Woman...Now that is something different. — Jasari Copy Share Image
You've got to give people an opportunity. But I also think that a lot of black writers don't know how to submit… — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
“Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.” — Linda Nelson Copy Share Image
Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better. — JoAnn Ross Copy Share Image
Write from your heart, write from your soul.. make the best of your talent and don't ever let it go not for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
