Writers Quotes

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I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they… — Mike Tyson
Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts. — Mike Tyson
Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them,… — Holly Lisle
Reading for writers is like training for athletes. — Linda Sue Park
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer. — Alan Furst
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. — Len Deighton
I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone. — Patricia Highsmith
There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life… — Don DeLillo
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways… — Don DeLillo
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. — Don DeLillo
I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even… — Judy Blume
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and… — Sinclair Lewis
I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get… — Anne McCaffrey
I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might… — Anne McCaffrey
This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown… — Terry Brooks
All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on… — V. S. Pritchett
My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about… — Anton Chekhov
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. — James A. Michener
It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered… — John L. DeWitt
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be… — John Berger
Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the… — Doris Grumbach
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no… — William Faulkner
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to… — Alfred Russel Wallace
Writers are the main landmarks of the past. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is… — Ernest Hemingway

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