Writers Like Quotes

34 quotes by 30 authors

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. — Walter Bagehot
Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but… — Gertrude Stein
Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye â€¦ I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities. — Donald Barthelme
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path… — Cameron Crowe
I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church… — Eric Clapton
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft… — Charles Frazier
Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre… — Michael Cisco
One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life… — Stephen Fry
The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on… — Charles Bukowski
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important… — Aravind Adiga
I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia. — Tracy Chapman
Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other,… — Arundhati Roy
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound. — Walter Savage Landor
My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice… — Ted Dekker
I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or… — Lisa Edelstein
I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a… — Amanda Hocking
Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy,… — Jeff VanderMeer
A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things. — Matt Groening
In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the… — Mos Def

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