“Never give up, Never surrender!!!!! If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins” — Paula V. Hardin Copy Share Image
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence.” — Janae Mitchell Copy Share Image
“There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does. — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
“I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen.… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet,… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
My literary heroes all wrote about L.A.: Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler were the three writers that made me want… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasn’t it? The old moth-to-the-flame… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
“I’m not interested in teaching books by women... Usually at the beginning of the semester a hand shoots up and someone asks… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
“Most inspirational writers were born as driftwood and will say they have been beaten against every shoreline during their life. We understand… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers,… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Writers and magicians do essentially the same thing, they create worlds with words and will.” — James L. Wilber Copy Share Image
I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
“Never cross an inspirational author or you will be the example of what not to be like in every one of their… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don't tan. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Writers are generally anonymous. It just that I think I got out there because I also act as well and put myself… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character. — Sherwood Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Writers wear their skeletons on their sleeves. While the rest of the world locks them in a closet.” — Zachary Koukol Copy Share Image
