Writers Quotes

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Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays. — Philip J. Davis
Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of… — F. F. Bruce
I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers — Harvey Pekar
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. — Ridley Scott
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two… — Gene Wolfe
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who… — Catherynne M. Valente
Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have… — David Morrell
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with… — Mary Oliver
Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and… — Maria Tatar
Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite spontaneously. You always… — Michael Haneke
Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy. — Connie Willis
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You… — Walter Mosley
There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard… — Steven Pressfield
The original series of Watchmen is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC's reasons for this initiative… — Dave Gibbons
I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense… — Lynn Abbey
The trap into which all writers have, will, or should fall into, of writing The Great American Watchamacallit, is such an uncluttered and inviting one… — Harlan Ellison
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice… — Dean Koontz
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human… — Alan Ayckbourn
There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy… — Margaret Drabble
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century — Max Beerbohm
I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a… — Georges Bizet

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