What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Writers are a combative bunch when it comes to aesthetics, and the generation before GENRE are born into a discourse that’s been… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms… — Peter York Copy Share Image
To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink.… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Cunningham himself said in an interview in Poz that he couldn’t help noticing that as soon as he wrote a novel without… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I'm influenced by Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace: writers who are often not content to just stack paragraphs and have… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff.… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“But I seemed unable to do anything that pleased anyone and that included me, my own self, though at that time I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“No shame in having a ghostwriter," Storm said. "Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
“When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In the comedy world, there's always been one woman to five men. I think that's changing, that we're being respected more as… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
“If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the… — Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart Copy Share Image
I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It's - but it all goes back to… — Betty White Copy Share Image
My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I don't think I would ever inch my way up to Y.A. That audience is very well served. There are a lot… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers… — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
“Act as if you're a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism', but a gathering together… — John Metcalf Copy Share Image
“When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a… — Hannah Strom-Martin Copy Share Image
The great thing about 'Justified' is that the writers will craft a scene, but if the actors come up with a great… — Neal McDonough Copy Share Image
