What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year. — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
The pen may be mightier than the sword, but no one in Brave Heart carried one.~M.J. McGuire — MJ McGuire Copy Share Image
Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“I'm going to be a person who writes stories. I never told mom and dad how much I loved them. I wanna… — Aoboshi Kimama Copy Share Image
No one is born hating another person because of the color of their skin, their background, or their religion. People must learn… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business.… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
“I judge the quality of my work by the quality of the people that follow it. If my readers are the most… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
I think writers always want to be taken seriously as writers, but it's not always possible. There's a difference between persistence and… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they’re good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you… — W.P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“I am a writer and things which don't happen in real world, happen in my world.” — Amay Saxena Copy Share Image
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
To the question always asked, 'why do you write?' the response of the poet will always be the briefest 'In order to… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“How…will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“He simply could not write a further word. Writer’s block, he thought. It happens to the most brilliant of writers.” — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
It's great working with great writers and directors because you're getting paid for something you love and want to do. — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.” — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.” — Ira Sadoff Copy Share Image
I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
![“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a class of their own.” quote by John le Carré](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/158/john-le-carre-651_autobiographies_a-n-old-writer-s-memory-is-the-whore-of_1720652.jpg)
