“ Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers. — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
In India, writers are underpaid. Universities should start new courses to create more opportunities for them. — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
“...nuomstunder have ligesaa mange Skribentere, som Fluer udi September maaned.” — Ludvig Holberg Copy Share Image
“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
“A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with… — Brenda Ashworth Barry Copy Share Image
There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV. — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
What we need to do, as writers, is find out where our market is and adapt to it. I'm not saying that… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
It's something that I know how to do because I taught for a very long time, so I can do it, and… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made,… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Angeline M. Bishop Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality. — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic. — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
“It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.” — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers. — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write. — Jamie Hector Copy Share Image
“No matter what level of success, there is no such thing as a secure writer” — Michael Lennick Copy Share Image
“(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.” — Sean O'Faolain Copy Share Image
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. — Florence King Copy Share Image
All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
