“Write a book, create an identity, create a property, create a legacy for yourself.” — Neeraj Singhvi Copy Share Image
“Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.” — Buffy Andrews Copy Share Image
“Writers create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the Brill Building. OK, maybe… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on.… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser. Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think in the 'Deadpool' franchise, the writers are really good at distilling the good stuff and applying that to the material… — David Leitch Copy Share Image
“I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstep How did we go from nonchalant conversation me… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write.… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Realistic writing kept me stable. It kept my mind less clustered by resting my soul; pouring it onto a blank canvas. I… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I have never experienced writers block and I've written every day since June 1972. But I have experienced the need to get… — Jan Marquart Copy Share Image
“I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.” — Tyler Hojberg Copy Share Image
“We finally realize this one day that our solitude is a blessing for us!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.” — John Sutherland Copy Share Image
I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to. — Tony Earley Copy Share Image
Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“writers shouldn’t spend all their time doing what they don’t enjoy. Instead, they need to do what they love. They need to… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
