“Some writers say they find the writing process lonely. I don't. Yes, it's solitary but when you can escape into a world… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers… — Claire Amber Copy Share Image
I'm always conscious when I'm writing a story that the women in my books need to save themselves. They don't need to… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
In a way all writers are writing against death, because writing is an attempt to defy the passage of time, to refuse… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“If there's another writer, like Ross McDonald or Raymond Chandler, and all they're writing are mysteries, they won't be accepted," he said.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Writers are, for the most part, crazy people. We're like Hephaestus of the forge. We're gnarled. We're curled over. We walk with… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
There are some writers who don't write about people who do jobs. I'm not going to name them, but you watch one… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
“These young writers nowadays. They spend more time networking to promote their writing careers than writing their books. Maybe that’s why there… — Lauren Carr Copy Share Image
The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are… — John Frankenheimer Copy Share Image
My literary heroes all wrote about L.A.: Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler were the three writers that made me want… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet,… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Everyone who made 'Save the Date,' like the writers and the director, they're all happily married and not anti-marriage at all, so… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of… — Brea Grant Copy Share Image
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that… — Jenny Agutter Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
“Kwa nini Biblia imejaa mafumbo? Biblia imejaa mafumbo kwa sababu akili za watu bado hazijakomaa kuupokea ukweli. Yesu na waandishi wote wa… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I once wrote a book on women in science. I realized when I was interviewing them that they were the equivalent of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Writers get embarrassed sometimes in talking about how much fun writing can be, but drafting is often really enjoyable. Often, you're tumbling… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
These days, people like me who are in the arts are perceived as celebrity writers. That really makes me angry because I… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
