“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think,… — David Bowker Copy Share Image
“Writers, in essence, are professional word tamers; if the words walking down the lines were living creatures, they would surely fear and… — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever really ends. That’s the horrible part of being in the short-story business—you have to be a real expert on ends.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
One of the biggest drawbacks of our industry is that we haven't nurtured our writers for years. Now, we realise we need… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“Maybe Laura’s real problem came in admitting this: there was nothing new under the sun. To write a story would be, somehow… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
“I feel strongly against professionalism, against someone’s feeling he has to write a book every year to keep his name before the… — Peter Taylor Copy Share Image
I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
“When you start searching for ‘pure elements’ in literature you will find that literature has been created by the following classes of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Musicians become professionals by playing a hundred live shows. Likewise, writers become authors by publishing a lot of bad work (until it’s… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
“I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front… — Kate Baldwin Copy Share Image
“And no matter how much I want to encourage the man or woman trying for the first time to write seriously, I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“It seems to me, alas, that if you can so thoroughly dissect your children who are still to be born, you don’t… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society.… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I must confess I love female writers: Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Willa Cather, Dawn Powell, Joan Didion. I grew up on… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
“In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite… — Princess Superstar Copy Share Image
“I'm going to be a person who writes stories. I never told mom and dad how much I loved them. I wanna… — Aoboshi Kimama Copy Share Image
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
No one is born hating another person because of the color of their skin, their background, or their religion. People must learn… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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