Ability Quote by Laurie Halse Anderson

“You're writing, you're coasting, and you're thinking, 'This is the best thing I've ever written, and it's coming so easily, and these characters are…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“One thing that separates would-be writers from working writers is that the latter know their work will never match their dreams.”

— Ralph Keyes

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

— Errol Morris

We have people say, 'There's not enough women writers.' I have a writers room that is almost nothing but women over at 'Grey's Anatomy.'

— Shonda Rhimes

I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like…

— Jeanette Winterson

We all have our opinions. But I suspect that writers are actually less worth heeding, because they regard themselves as so uniquely important, so…

— Simon Hoggart

I believe that writers run out of material, I really do. I believe very strongly in the fact that when the natural time is…

— Brian Wilson

“A lot of aspiring writers are actually very talented and just have to continue polishing their craft till opportunity knocks. All writers have to…

— Myne Whitman

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You…

— Matthew Specktor

I've been so grateful for writing, and writers and, actually I would say that that is the cornerstone of my career, the writing. That's…

— Lesley Sharp

“Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people…

— Rebecca Solnit

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others,…

— Rebecca Solnit

Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that…

— Peter York

Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block.

— Jenna Blum

“Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.”

— Joanne Kraft