Absolutely Quote by Sam Shepard

I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their…

— Italo Calvino

“As writing is one of the desperate professions, it has universal appeal, especially for those not engaged in it.”

— WH Auden

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what…

— Richard Ford

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

— Edna O'Brien

I think in the 'Deadpool' franchise, the writers are really good at distilling the good stuff and applying that to the material in this…

— David Leitch

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.

— Anne Lamott

Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now. That's what…

— Michael Dirda

I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from the rejection…

— Micah Perks

The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by…

— Chuck Klosterman

I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

When you're on the set, and sometimes, because it's been so complex and the writers have been really writing, sometimes up until the last…

— Glenn Close

That's what's been fun about the relationship, these moments where they're going head-to-head and then pull together when they have to, when the stakes…

— Erica Durance

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin

We definitely need to give so much more importance, relevance, pay, glory to the writers because they are really the backbone of what we…

— Kabir Khan