Bastards Quote by Warren Ellis

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

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

— Peter York

I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of…

— Anne Lamott

“All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. . . I…

— Anne Lamott

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ…

— Daniel Tammet

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

— T. S. Eliot

“...but they were writers and writers suggest things just to see what happens next.”

— Abigail Thomas

I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers who have…

— Debra Monroe

“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