“The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“That's what lifts us up, us writers: we have our imagination, if nothing else.” — M. Beth Bloom Copy Share Image
I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you? — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
I must confess I love female writers: Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Willa Cather, Dawn Powell, Joan Didion. I grew up on… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
“In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite… — Princess Superstar Copy Share Image
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
“I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
“It would have been better to do what everyone else does, neither taking life too seriously nor seeing it as merely grotesque,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
You have a voice don't be afraid to speak, live through your pen and create a legacy. — Michael Kilby Copy Share Image
Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Life is uncertain. Today you get a rose. Tomorrow you feel the thorns. But the end result is red, always!!” — Shillpi S Banerrji Copy Share Image
The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
“You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm slightly in awe of writers, such as Sophie Hannah, who follow outlines. — Tana French Copy Share Image
“The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...” — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often… — Marta McDowell Copy Share Image
