Writers Quotes

2641 Writers quotes by 1655 unique authors

Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their own lives. Giving… — Stephen King
And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without… — Brian Lumley
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. — Brian Lumley
I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into… — Chris Crutcher
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else. — Mignon McLaughlin
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?' — Gore Vidal
That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want… — Gore Vidal
American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. — Gore Vidal
Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't… — James A. Michener
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and… — William Golding
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia
In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere because they don't… — Ron Chernow
All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves. — J. Anthony Lukas
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English… — Michael Swanwick
To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up… — Lydia Davis
My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that.… — Margaret Mahy
Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I… — Ha Jin
Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical. — Terry McMillan
Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel writers… — Yusef Komunyakaa
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week. — Nick Hornby
One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain. — Scarlett Thomas
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. — Michael Cunningham
I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader… — John Philip Sousa
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We… — Leonard Ravenhill
Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found. — Elizabeth Bowen

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