Leading me Quote by Zadie Smith

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

— Anton Chekhov

Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to…

— Walter Moers

“Writers do not write what they want, they write what they can. When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately…

— Zadie Smith

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with…

— Dorothy Parker

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.

— Jack Bickham

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

— Marianne Williamson

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

— Joe Pasternak

I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

— Zadie Smith

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you…

— Ray Bradbury

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return…

— Penelope Lively