Writers Quotes

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I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons:… — Patricia MacLachlan
Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen. It's tempting to… — Frances Hardinge
Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and language bid one… — Jaimy Gordon
Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel… — Sol Stein
Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound… — Unknown Author
In the beginning, I found myself dealing with a show business dictated by male white supremacists and chauvinists. As a black female, I had to… — Diahann Carroll
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. — Steven Spielberg
Writers are used to being re-created, and need it. — David James
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the… — Harold Bloom
What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant… — Eero Saarinen
Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what? — Wallace Stegner
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be… — Wallace Stegner
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more… — J M Coetzee
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me. — Dorothy Parker
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I… — Carl Van Vechten
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of… — David Guterson
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. — William Gaddis
Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we… — Emeril Lagasse
I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by… — Teju Cole
Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it… — Gloria Steinem
I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities. — Donald Barthelme
Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but… — Edward Abbey
The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even… — Edward Abbey
All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience! — Edward Abbey

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