“Those who can't, and can't teach, translate. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)” — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world. — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
“Parallel worlds, right?" Aston nodded. "Our sci-fi writers love 'em." "They still do back home," Ludmilla assured him.” — David Weber Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have so many talented writers. Companies need to understand that smaller writers also need to be supported. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let… — Sarra Cannon Copy Share Image
I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely… — Larry Howes Copy Share Image
“Do you write every day?' 'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation.… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“The world is full of people who write poorly but passionately, and others who can put a sentence together but have no… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
Some writers are prolific; some are shape-shifters. It's rare and intimidating to encounter one who is both. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits. — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
“There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world. — Ron White Copy Share Image
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting. — Jakucho Setouchi Copy Share Image
“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Most people in the world of comedy at least are multi-hyphenates, so people who direct are also writers. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.” — Naomi Wood Copy Share Image
'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives. — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
