Writers Quotes

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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians. — Rosanne Cash
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic… — John Mortimer
Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach. — Robert Black
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical… — James Dwight Dana
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. — Dan Greenburg
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. — Craig Raine
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon,… — Edward Dahlberg
I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the… — Deacon Jones
Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a… — Unknown Author
You should never settle for what you think is just good. You should drive the editors and writers and everybody nuts until it's great. And… — Unknown Author
I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground… — Thomas Keneally
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of… — Michael Dorris
Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to. — Alexis Bledel
An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them. — Ximenes Doudan
In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about… — Ernest Hemingway
I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense… — Charles Darwin
Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… — Jorge Luis Borges
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner
You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only… — Unknown Author
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. — Wallace Stegner
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of… — Dorothy Parker

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