“If you're the 'brilliant writer' in the room, you're in the wrong writers' room.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent. — Paul Lieberstein Copy Share Image
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“You are immensely gifted my friend You can find it within you Like I found something within me A few years ago...” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that… — Jenny Agutter Copy Share Image
I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of… — Brea Grant Copy Share Image
Everyone who made 'Save the Date,' like the writers and the director, they're all happily married and not anti-marriage at all, so… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
“Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their… — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
“But about the drip drip of long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. They don't know what it is to construct an entire… — Zoe Heller Copy Share Image
“Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We're sorry, but no... and then more beautiful things. It's a shit sandwich with branston… — Kate Inglis Copy Share Image
Writing isn't generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather,… — Melissa Scott Copy Share Image
What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just… — Buck Henry Copy Share Image
“In my philosophy, I think churches should not argue and be greedy with money. I think different churches like the synagogues, mosques,… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
It's too bad that there aren't as many light comedies around in the movies as there were when I was making pictures… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A few people have tried to make me see that my writing isn't quite their thing by saying to me: 'What about… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul… — Hozier Copy Share Image
“Make it interesting and it will be true: this is what story writers live by.” — Heidi Pitlor Copy Share Image
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them — Louise Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances! — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I prefer a pen in my hand to a cigarette when I drink. It generally works out better for everybody. -D. — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
