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I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.
— Hunter Tylo
I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.
— Felisberto Hernandez
The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.
— Maggie Young
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
— Ray Bradbury
Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write.
— Avijeet Das
The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
— Edmund Burke
It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.
— Raymond Chandler
You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
— G.K. Chesterton
Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.
— Charlaine Harris
In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.
— Chris Campanioni
all of the great writers drank, except for Kafka and Nietzsche, neither of whom you exactly wanted to be when you grew up.
— Anne Lamott
What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.
— Stephen Graham Jones
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
— Zadie Smith
Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we interpret the world, how we make sense of it.
— Robert Galbraith
Two kinds of writers. One treats the world as if it were fiction; the other treats fiction as if it were the world.
— Marty Rubin
One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form.
— John Kessel
Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
These aren't accidents. They are significant choices, like the choice of a totemic animal: something in your spirit aligns with theirs.
— Phyllis Rose
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
— Julius Wellhausen
Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
— Samuel Goldwyn
Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.
— Shannon L. Alder
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
— Anne McCaffrey
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?
— Johnny Rich
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
— Langston Hughes
The lot of the brideto be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten. — Roman Payne
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
— Robert Hass
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
— Marguerite Young
The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment.
— Christopher Bram
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
— Wilson Follett
I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.
— Sherwood Schwartz
One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.
— Michael Marshall Smith
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
— Orson Scott Card
Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
— William Strunk Jr.
We're happier when the assholes are villains.
— Christopher Bram
Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow.
— Caron Kamps Widden
They say that writers face the blank page. That's not true. It's more like 200 hundred blank pages!
— R.S. Mellette
The next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.
— Alastair Reynolds
Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
— Jack Black
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
— James A. Michener
Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.
— Giorgio Moroder
A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.
— Jonathan Franzen
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry.
— Lucy Poate Stebbins
Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.
— Mary Lawrence
The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
— Sara Sheridan
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.
— Sylvia Plath
Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.
— Stephen Malkmus
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
— John Cheever
Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.
— Stieg Larsson
There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished.
— Claire Wingfield
Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money.writers?
writers starved.
writers suicided.
writers went mad. — Charles Bukowski
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
— Fennel Hudson
Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation.
— Tim Heaton
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
— Jonathan Kozol
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
But the book! The siren song of the book!
— Ellen Douglas
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
— Alberto Moravia
TV is very much my first love. I love this world. It's where writers have the most creative control, and I just love that.
— Melissa Rosenberg
I close my eyes and think of what might be possible. And, in my mind, I see fireworks over the Hudson.
— Christy Hall
I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.
— Denise Duhamel
Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I've sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.
— Francine Du Plessix Gray
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
— Julian Barnes
In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'
— Phil Collins
The written word is greatest sacred documentation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.
— Kristan Higgins
To inspire is revealing the unpolished bits before perfection.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves
It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.
— Christopher Bram
Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
— John Steinbeck
The greatest writers have persistence.
— Gina B. Nahai
