Communication Quote by Lynn Coady

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

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can…

— George Saunders

They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see myself." All…

— Vivian Gornick

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

— Raymond Pettibon

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the…

— Ayn Rand

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying…

— Margaret Atwood

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

— Ray Bradbury

It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head.

— Naomi Alderman

I do feel like that's what a writer does, is he goes into other people's heads.

— George Pelecanos

“Writers that don't write, end up talking to themselves...”

— Carina Round