Writers Quotes · Page 57

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

— Stephen King

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

— Italo Calvino

“There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind”

— Kevin Cowdall

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

— Will Hobbs

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

— Wanda Sykes

I think that successful writers somehow capture truths that resonate with readers.

— Steven Gundry

“Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology”

— Stephenie Meyer

Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.

— Nicola Roberts

Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door…

— Christy Hall

How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy…

— Adam Hochschild

“We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy…

— Alan Brennert

One of my favorite things about 'Castle' is the fact our writers and producers are so collaborative. They allow us to bring…

— Jon Huertas

Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or…

— Robert Hilburn

The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting,…

— Lisa Tuttle

What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people…

— Tobias Wolff

There isn't going to be anyone to tell you what to do most of the time. It has to be your own…

— Mary Gaitskill

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know…

— David Small

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple…

— Vikram Seth

“The Sweat and the Furrow was Silas Weekley being earthly and spade-conscious all over seven hundred pages. The situation, to judge from…

— Josephine Tey

“The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested.…

— Jaron Lanier

Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and…

— Paul Di Filippo

Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people,…

— Madison Smartt Bell

“But I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who…

— Gabrielle Zevin

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

— Greg Kinnear

I know all actors are different, but I've never sat down and asked the writers, 'Where are we headed? Am I good…

— Blair Brown

“Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for…

— Brandi L. Bates

People read romance novel one after another, their searching for the one story better than they could write themselves.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have…

— Erica Jong

“Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.”

— Jennifer Salaiz

Aussie actors and writers and crews, we really band together. Its like a family.

— Madeleine Madden

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

— Carl Reiner

You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

— Stephen King

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

— Jack McDevitt

“I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.”

— Virginia Frances Schwartz

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

— Monica Johnson

“One thing that separates would-be writers from working writers is that the latter know their work will never match their dreams.”

— Ralph Keyes

Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.

— David Means

Minorities, Dalits, farmers, students, writers - all have faced the brunt of the Narendra Modi government and risen in protest.

— Pinarayi Vijayan