It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
“If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!… — Brian Rock Copy Share Image
“Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn’t worry about AIDS since his sex… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“One would expect writers and artists to understand one another better than anyone else and to be more appreciative of one another’s… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers;… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
“Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding… — Heenashree Khandelwal Copy Share Image
“[A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I find myself nursing keen regret at probably not being able to live long enough to explain properly to you what I… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the… — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
“For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away… — William Golding Copy Share Image
What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about reality TV and that there are no roles left. That's false. Years ago, there were three networks. Now there… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
“I disliked them all immediately, sitting around acting clever and superior. They nullified each other. The worst thing for a writer is… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
A number of mysterious words , secretive puzzles, lot many confusionsand dilemma when enters a mind and make you feel a bit… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot… — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
“5.57am and I’m finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Our love is a secret. A secret, we haven’t told anyone. We wont say out loud. Our love is everything. A place,… — Jawedquotes Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write.… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
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