Writers Quotes

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I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking… — P.D. James
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would… — Gwendolyn Brooks
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that… — Italo Calvino
On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good… — Paul Muldoon
I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else — Laurell K. Hamilton
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm… — Charlaine Harris
All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts and keep submitting… — MaryJanice Davidson
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms,… — Walter Pater
I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and that of a… — Eleanor Catton
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward,… — Jonathan Franzen
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo. — Alan Hollinghurst
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters.… — Anita Diament
It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work. — Tim Berners-Lee
For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of… — Stewart Udall
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I… — Brad Thor
Only bad writers think they're good. — Harlan Coben
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain… — Cherrie Moraga
The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me sad.' 'Make me… — Guy de Maupassant
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path… — Cameron Crowe
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. — Jennifer Weiner
I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers — Ryne Sandberg
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being — Richard Ford
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and… — Jeanette Winterson

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