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Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public recognition for your… — Pat Schneider
The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on… — Charles Bukowski
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read. — Raymond Carver
When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and… — Elizabeth Moon
It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the… — Samuel Johnson
My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us… — Barry Lopez
I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors. — Jen Lancaster
At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are… — Margaret Mahy
I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to… — Melissa Rosenberg
Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and… — Anne Lamott
Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect… — Karl Shapiro
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing. — Louise Brown
Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward… — Nancy Kress
Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers… — Nathalie Sarraute
I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming. — Jay Asher
I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read. — Junot Diaz
I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to… — James Frey
I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting. — Tony Gilroy
I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do. — Jeremy Irvine
The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell… — Scott O'Dell
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of… — Paul Theroux
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. — Kate DiCamillo
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them. — Harvey Fierstein
Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard… — Mindy Kaling
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I… — Garrison Keillor

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