Writers Quotes · Page 55

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

— Edward St Aubyn

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

— Ezra Pound

I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl be not being able to write about…

— Vanna Bonta

I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.

— Jonathan Pryce

“Parallel worlds, right?" Aston nodded. "Our sci-fi writers love 'em." "They still do back home," Ludmilla assured him.”

— David Weber

“Those who can't, and can't teach, translate. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)”

— Mort W. Lumsden

We have so many talented writers. Companies need to understand that smaller writers also need to be supported.

— Nicola Roberts

“To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone…

— Chris Stocking

But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might…

— Maria Lenhart

As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very…

— Garry Hynes

“Do not think of this as the end. Think of this as the beginning of eternity together . I have always loved…

— Grace Willows

“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest…

— Ivan Klima

“For a writer it was perhaps most important not to write, but to read. Read as much as you can because in…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a…

— Lauren Tarshis

We all have our opinions. But I suspect that writers are actually less worth heeding, because they regard themselves as so uniquely…

— Simon Hoggart

Ideally, writers and narrative designers should be included much earlier in the process, where they can be of most benefit. However, although…

— Rhianna Pratchett

We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but…

— Ronald Frame

“But really it says everything that’s wrong about the publishing industry, that a quarter of a million people bought and read a…

— Sarra Manning

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels…

— Eudora Welty

“Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“My advice for aspiring writers is simply this: NEVER GIVE UP. Do not let anyone tell you that you cannot achieve your…

— Rachel Nicole Wagner

There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that…

— Eleanor Catton

“I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through…

— Shannon L. Alder

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

— Nadine Gordimer

There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly…

— Jennifer Egan

“There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.”

— Sara Sheridan

I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits.

— Rick Moranis

Some writers are prolific; some are shape-shifters. It's rare and intimidating to encounter one who is both.

— Rumaan Alam

Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.

— Eileen Pollack

“Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

— Richard Flanagan

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

— William Styron

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.

— Stephen J. Cannell

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

— David Mitchell

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.

— Roger Waters

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

— John Lancaster Spalding

“Dreamers dream. Readers read. Writers write. I was born to be all three.”

— Terri Costola

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

— Peter Carey