Bears Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

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

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and…

— Julianna Baggott

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing…

— Lillian Hellman

Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do…

— Ben Dolnick

Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand…

— Rod Serling

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a…

— Edna Ferber

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

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

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke

“As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing…

— Nicholas Carr

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone…

— Kevin Smith

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of…

— Liev Schreiber