“Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who… — Lori Ann Lesko Copy Share Image
I've participated at summits where I was the only chef. I was surrounded with thinkers and writers and innovators. — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers. — Maurissa Tancharoen Copy Share Image
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You know what they say about writers: we can do it quietly, in many different positions, and all night long.” — Christopher D. Votey Copy Share Image
Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want… — Anthony Geary Copy Share Image
I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Once the writers got to know the actors, they would include certain things - personality-wise - for the characters because they knew… — Retta Copy Share Image
“I think there have been a lot of writers who’ve been experimenting lately with really sprawling novels that will deal with a… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It is "vibration" that creates our world. Everyone vibrates. We always utter words in our mind. Thus we create sounds continuously. Frequency… — Surajit Sarkar Copy Share Image
“You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“According to my mother, I was a fiction writer before I'd written any ficton, by wich she meant not only that I… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
“If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.” — Elaine Liner Copy Share Image
About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad. — Harry Harrison Copy Share Image
“Writers are different,” said Waldegrave. “I’ve never met one who was any good who wasn’t screwy.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing. — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
“If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better. — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is an amazing job, but we’re all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on… — Colette Freedman Copy Share Image
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
