All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again. — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“I wish not to tell you how I feel I choose silence so that you leave Kiss me goodbye and set me… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“Fancourt can't write women,' said Nina dismissively. 'He tries but he can't do it. His women are all temper, tits and tampons.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him… — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“As writers we have the profound privilege and responsibility to create a new world when the current one takes a turn for… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Most people don't notice what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: for God's sake, keep your eyes open.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there are writers that do that,… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might… — Maria Lenhart Copy Share Image
“To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone… — Chris Stocking Copy Share Image
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because… — Alonso Duralde Copy Share Image
“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked. "Seventeen, " I told her. "Seventeen!"… — John Irving Copy Share Image
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
“Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow… — Jeff Phillips Copy Share Image
A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Once I enter the realm of depression or when I am at my happiest, those are the moments of realization when I… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
As much as I thought the end of 'Friday Night Lights' was a really great ending, I was one of those people… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.” — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.” — Jyrki Vainonen Copy Share Image
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Everyone carries a story which can be a best selling novel, it’s just a matter of penning down your feelings on papers.” — Sohil Ashvin Shah Copy Share Image
“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
“Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
One should take writers' valuations of their own work with a pinch of salt: they are likely to rank them differently tomorrow. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
“Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
