Care Quote by Irwin Shaw

Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and…

— Nicholson Baker

So, it's a delicate thing, but at the same time our producers and writers are very much aware of the potential downfall that could…

— Emily Deschanel

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

— Irwin Shaw

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety…

— John Henry Newman

For as long as writers have written, they've had second thoughts about their work.

— Maria Konnikova

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

— Tobias Wolff

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

— Markus Zusak

I think repetition is the hardest thing to avoid with sequels, because you've told a story and now you're adding more story to the…

— Leigh Whannell

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

— Ned Beauman

Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.

— Pankaj Mishra

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

— Andrew Davies

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

— Christopher Bram