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Writers Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and…
- We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
- I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
- Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control,…
- To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and…
- Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that…
- A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth…
- If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.
- Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are…
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- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu
- Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. — Walter Bagehot
- How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers. — Amy Adams