Writers Quotes

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Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to… — H. L. Mencken
I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war. — Roger Waters
We at the Christian Writers Guild couldn't be more proud of Brandy Vallance. Let her debut novel transport you to an entirely fresh time and… — Jerry B. Jenkins
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being… — Tim LaHaye
Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. — Lorenz Hart
There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point. — Peter David
I don't believe in democracy. In the second place, neither did our white forefathers. I believe, as they did, in a republican authoritarian republic with… — George Lincoln Rockwell
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and… — Justin Cronin
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon,… — Murray Gell-Mann
Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many… — Thomas Cranmer
But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work… — Thomas Keneally
Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction. — Val McDermid
On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every… — Heather O'Neill
If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it. — Irving Thalberg
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. — Wilfrid
I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those… — Wilfrid
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing… — Ben Gibbard
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair. — Alfred Kazin
I'm a little too belligerent. I cuss and swear at people. I yell at umpires and maybe I'm a little to tough at home sometimes.… — Thurman Munson
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all… — Ron Rash
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies… — Alice Hoffman
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call — Bill Walsh
Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there… — Roger McGough
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably… — Anne Lamott
Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless… — Eduardo Galeano

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