Contemporary Quote by Gore Vidal

The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life;…

— Pascal Bruckner

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of…

— William Golding

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with…

— William Golding

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

— Rene Russo

Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

I think with every writer there are two people there.

— Hugh Leonard

I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who…

— Renata Adler

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

— Erica Brown

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

— Patricia T. O'Conner