Might Quote by Wallace Shawn

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

— Lois Lowry

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

— Pankaj Mishra

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

— Kent McCord

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

— William Saroyan

By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in.

— Lynn Nottage

They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know.

— Vivian Gornick

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

— Denise Mina

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.

— Walter Lippmann

Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.

— Tom Hanks

My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.

— John C. Bogle

I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing…

— John Green

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

— Dennis Potter