Detectives Quote by Walter Mosley

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

— Michel Houellebecq

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

— Mo Yan

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

— Martin Amis

It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most writers as…

— James M. Gavin

It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not.…

— Mary J. Miller

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

— Sherwood Schwartz

I think some writers should wait for something to say.

— Peter Orner

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

— Elmore Leonard

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends…

— Sylvia Plath

“You're lucky to have within your grasp something that everyone envies. You can't act as though that didn't exist, as though it wasn't part…

— Delphine de Vigan

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion…

— Dorianne Laux