Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
True poets don't write their thoughts with a pen. They release the ink that flows from within their heart. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves. — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
As a writer I am a virtual pain in the ass. Not only do I unearth the family skeletons, I polish them… — Yust Lundberg Copy Share Image
We all have our opinions. But I suspect that writers are actually less worth heeding, because they regard themselves as so uniquely… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
The deaf culture is portrayed very accurately on 'Switched at Birth' because the writers did the opposite of the norm. They did… — Sean Berdy Copy Share Image
“His only part in the story: to observe and remember the chain of events. Not all of us will be cast in… — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
“NEWSPAPER: What great paper is the Earth; what a typeface is the Day; what ink is the Night! – Everyone prints, everyone… — Xavier Forneret Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is ultimately the only way that we know besides song, dance, painting, and music to share with our tribesmen what it… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I met him. Him; him who in the midst of my terrible sorrow, fell in love with my madness. Him who was… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back… — Inez Kelley Copy Share Image
I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“If you ask for my opinion in what regards Tim Ferris, Eckhart Tolle, Rhonda Byrne, Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling, you… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue. Now, I can’t look at your… — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
“I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“Because of the earth’s roundness, Genghis Khan, in the fever of possession and destruction, hastened his own overthrow by invading lands that… — André Breton Copy Share Image
I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms. — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.” — Shay Youngblood Copy Share Image
People ask me if I have comedy writers, and I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?' — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot… — Kendall Hailey Copy Share Image
With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself. — Joe Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Writers don't make peace with their past… They preserve the crumbs and weave stories around them” — Gaurav Sharma Copy Share Image
If I can do quality work with wonderful writers and directors and producers... that's the cherry on top. — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
