Top 1200 Good Writers Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

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

Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our current situation may not be critiqued. We have not only lost the right to criticise, but the courage to do so.Why is modern China lacking in great writers? Because all the great writers are castrated while still in the nursery.

TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

There are a lot of women - directors, producers, writers - involved in my career. They are all interested in telling good stories, and good stories involve men and women.

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

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

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.

I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.

And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

If we want good stories, writers should be given their due.

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

I've taken a lot of crap. That's just the way life is. There are going to be writers who like you and writers who despise you.

I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.

Sloane Crosley and David Sedaris are two of my favorite writers; they're the kind of writers who make you feel like, 'I can do this. I want to do this.'

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that it is good to be able to formulate - it is good to know what you are doing and to be able to talk about it.

Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block.

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytelling. Hiking in nature along a twisting trail can remind us what a good story feels like. It's the opposite of a treadmill - or an interstate highway.

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what's up.

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever reason.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and day out makes it really easy to forget that there's a whole community of writers out there, and they love contributing to other writers' success!

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.