“Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer. — Patricia Clarkson Copy Share Image
The knowledge and insights you can get in just one day at a writers' conference make it worth the trip. — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Angeline M. Bishop Copy Share Image
Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There's an expectation of producers and writers and directors perhaps, that trans people only want to play trans. — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where… — Margaret Chittenden Copy Share Image
“There's this word Libel that people love to pass around when filing lawsuits against someone who accurately described them in a publication.… — Niedria Kenny Copy Share Image
“Crafty writers...don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
These days, people like me who are in the arts are perceived as celebrity writers. That really makes me angry because I… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Writers do not write what they want, they write what they can. When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Of course, I don't mean to imply that all writers are working in the deep waters that border on the divine. Most… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“When people really are writers, they write. Artists draw. Golfers golf. Fish swim. Can’t keep them from it; it’s who they are.… — David Brisbin Copy Share Image
“Despite membership in the guild of outcasts, writers do, by quirk of fate or sex or addiction or parenthood, become intimate with… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city —… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot. — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let… — Irving Thalberg Copy Share Image
“Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.” — Felisberto Hernandez Copy Share Image
Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A. — Lorene Scafaria Copy Share Image
Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block. — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.” — Pádraig Pearse Copy Share Image
