Writers Quotes

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There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers. — H. L. Mencken
That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to… — Raymond Chandler
The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I… — Dan Aykroyd
I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could.… — Waldo Salt
So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off like… — Lorde
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the… — Ernest Hemingway
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them. — Gloria Steinem
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be… — James A. Michener
Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing. — Laura Miller
In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own… — Shirley Ann Grau
Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet on the ground… — Terry Pratchett
Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of… — Anne Rice
Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin. — Stanley Schmidt
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or… — John Green
We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone. — Tina Fey
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. — Edward Albee
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. — George Orwell
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or… — David Foster Wallace
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham… — David Foster Wallace
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about… — David Foster Wallace
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf… — William Saroyan
In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by… — Donald E. Westlake
There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was a… — Elizabeth Berg
Only bad writers think that their work is really good. — Anne Enright
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. — George D. Prentice

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