“When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I've had situations before where there are more people giving notes than there are writers on the show. — Brad Hall Copy Share Image
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that… — Avi Copy Share Image
“If writers were good business men, they'd have too much sense to be writers.” — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
“With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character. — Annabeth Gish Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind,… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
One of the things my friends would tell you is that I hang out with a lot of non-writers - just regular… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers,… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It would have been better to do what everyone else does, neither taking life too seriously nor seeing it as merely grotesque,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
“Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now everything has changed Stephen King reads… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
“At college, I was told there were four great women novelists in the 19th century – Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
My writing process is very feedback based - I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting...… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Some writers are rejected for the very creativity that is often needed and used to inspire the world.” — T.J. Mihaila Copy Share Image
“Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?” — Alyssa Hubbard Copy Share Image
Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
He traded in what he thought he had no control over for someone who he knew how to manipulate. — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Sometimes with good writers you don't spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one. — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was a child, there were two Nigerian writers in every bookshop: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer. — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.” — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
