Writers Write Quotes

34 quotes by 33 authors

• Writers write. Dreamers talk about it. — Jerry B. Jenkins
• 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
• Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women. — Sigmund Freud
• I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light. — Mandy Patinkin
• I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what… — Julia Stiles
• I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons:… — Patricia MacLachlan
• Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it… — Gloria Steinem
• Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I… — Ha Jin
• Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. — Rudy Rucker
• 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
• It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake… — Ariel Gore
• Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses. — Jack Bickham
• Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years,… — W. P. Kinsella
• One reason writers write is out of revenge. — Cynthia Ozick
• Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and… — Elie Wiesel
• I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls. — Mo Yan
• Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing. — P. C. Cast
• One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay… — Cynthia Ozick
• All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. — Ernest Gaines
• Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies. — Nick Denton

Who Wrote These Writers Write Quotes

33 authors contributed a total of 34 Writers Write Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Writers Write Quotes by Cynthia Ozick
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Ha Jin
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Rudy Rucker
• 1 Writers Write Quote by A.L. Kennedy
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Ariel Gore
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Jack Bickham
• 1 Writers Write Quote by W. P. Kinsella
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Elie Wiesel
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Mo Yan
• 1 Writers Write Quote by P. C. Cast
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Ernest Gaines
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Nick Denton
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Joan Didion
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Steve Berry
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Ken Follett
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Aldous Huxley
• 1 Writers Write Quote by J. Michael Straczynski
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Nikki Giovanni
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Anthony Kiedis
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Richard Scarry
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Lev Grossman
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Sigourney Weaver
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Anna Deavere Smith
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Thomas Berger
• 1 Writers Write Quote by Besa Kosova