Forever Quote by Gloria Steinem

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

“All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. . . I…

— Anne Lamott

You know, I think good writers write about what they know.

— Melody Gardot

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.

— Jack Bickham

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

— Joe Pasternak

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with…

— Dorothy Parker

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

— Marianne Williamson

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

— Gary Shteyngart

The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there…

— R. A. Lafferty

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

— Ezra Pound

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham