I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“How…will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
It's great working with great writers and directors because you're getting paid for something you love and want to do. — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
“He simply could not write a further word. Writer’s block, he thought. It happens to the most brilliant of writers.” — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.” — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.” — Ira Sadoff Copy Share Image
You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
We read and remember certain writers because they offer distinctive voices and perspectives, because they've given themselves over completely and passionately to… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Nick Flynn is another writer I admire - his fragmented sections, his playfulness with genre, his urgency. The palette in his work… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's… — Chang-Rae Lee 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
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
As much as I thought the end of 'Friday Night Lights' was a really great ending, I was one of those people… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
Once I enter the realm of depression or when I am at my happiest, those are the moments of realization when I… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“This time it was the sentence opening the last part of a story I had worked on for months: a sentence as… — Louis Zukofsky Copy Share Image
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