Art Quote by Harper Lee

“When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a part of…

— Hannah Strom-Martin

That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman.…

— Elton John

That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t…

— Gore Vidal

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first…

— Gore Vidal

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of…

— Robert McKee

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre

“Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I…

— Renata Adler

“The world is full of people who write poorly but passionately, and others who can put a sentence together but have no feeling behind…

— Kameron Hurley

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or…

— Conor Oberst

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser