My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
When I came into films, I found a vacuum in the field of lyricists, writers and composers. — Hamsalekha Copy Share Image
I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.” — Bailey Elizabeth Copy Share Image
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul.… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Directing myself definitely made me a better actor. And, you know, I think actors have the best track record when they turn… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
“Writers help summon people to a vision of human betterment...They create an awareness not just to things as they are, but as… — Lilian Gafni Copy Share Image
When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career... it doesn't get much nastier than that.… — James Corden Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Now let’s take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don’t step on the toes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on… — Alexander Ahndoril Copy Share Image
“To construct mechanically the brain of a somniferous tale, it is not enough to dissect nonsense & mightily stupefy the reader's intelligence… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
“A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.” — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and… — Andrea A. Lunsford Copy Share Image
“…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Having a support system is huge for writers. My parents were always encouraging and told me they were behind me, whether or… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that writers are much cleverer than they actually are. No, they're not. But they're emotionally clever, and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
