Writers Quotes

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The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are.… — R. A. Lafferty
There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of… — Stanley Schmidt
Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard… — Stanley Schmidt
The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking. — Alvin Dark
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers. — Henry R. Luce
Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal. — S.M. Stirling
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of… — Marcel Achard
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their… — Hugh Kingsmill
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write.… — A.L. Kennedy
I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as… — Jeanne Marie Laskas
Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going. — David Farland
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and… — Stanley Crouch
Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page and… — Tasha Alexander
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait… — Anatole Broyard
Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things. — Elizabeth Janeway
Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers. — Melissa Rosenberg
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind. — Joe Queenan
While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught… — Timothy Keller
I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may… — Anne Tyler
As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in,… — Taiye Selasi
Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it.… — Art Buchwald
As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it. — Willie Morris
Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous… — Jason Epstein
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle… — Dani Shapiro

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