Writers Quotes

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We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world. — Larry Kramer
Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either dont have enough… — Peter McWilliams
We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than… — Joseph Epstein
But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They… — Aaron Sorkin
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by… — Ted Dekker
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. — Orson Scott Card
And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor… — Jerry Pournelle
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have… — Marilyn Hacker
On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to… — Donna Tartt
I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If a piece of… — Dennis Lindley
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions… — Robertson Davies
People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex usually turn out… — Dave Barry
One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to… — Unknown Author
Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I… — Paul Krugman
I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a… — Leon Uris
If you want to know a country, read its writers. — Aminatta Forna
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing… — Leon Uris
How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about… — John Henry Newman
You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself. — Unknown Author
Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite… — Richard Hugo
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition -… — Edgar Allan Poe
The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates… — Anton Chekhov
It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The… — Anton Chekhov
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one. — Irwin Shaw

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