Top 1200 Writers And Poets Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

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

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

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.

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.

There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.

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

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

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

The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. Women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this Shia set against Sunnis. The U.S. is supporting al-Qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting Islam. So we are in a situation that is psychopathic.

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

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

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!

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

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

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

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.

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.

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

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

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

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

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

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

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

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

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.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

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

Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think... . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.

All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.

'Dead Poets Society' was a very influential film on me and so talking about that movie with him, he just inspired me to continue writing poetry and we talked a lot about our favourite poets. My wrap present from Robin was a beautiful limited edition copy of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' and that's a great memory for me.

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

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

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

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.

It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers.

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

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

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

Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.

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.

The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service.

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

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

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

Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers can’t drive? A lot. They’re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life.

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

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

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.

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.