Top 1200 Writers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

I think more talented writers should get involved in the industry, yes, of course. But that doesn't presuppose that those writers have to be novelists or screenwriters.

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

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

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!

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

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

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

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.

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

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

It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many writers have writer spouses.

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.

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.

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

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

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.

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

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 think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature.

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

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

The influence of cinema on all contemporary writers is undeniable. Because film is such a powerful and popular art form, we prose writers think cinematically.

Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches.

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

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

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

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

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

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 know something, but usually they are just messes.

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

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

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

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.

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

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

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

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

Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.

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

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.