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The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves. — Andrea Brown

The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy. — A.D. Posey

The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay

You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett — Jimmy Buffett

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense. — Goldwin Smith

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus. — Erma Bombeck

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers. — Patricia Clarkson

Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers. — David Adams Richards

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place. — Pierre Berton

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors. — Truman Capote

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories. — Kevin Spacey

Best seller material, and she didn't have to write a single word. — A.L. Mabry

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire. — Jeffery Deaver

There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine. — Varric Tethras

Every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word. — Adam Langer

Be your best company. — A.D. Posey

All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist. — Michael Stutz

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you. — A.K. Kuykendall

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs. — Ernest Hemingway,

My evolution as a writer? Mother said "stop talking like that", teachers said "you're weird", readers say "best book ever — Daniel Marques

Be your best gift. — A.D. Posey

The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time. — Italo Calvino

The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine. — R.D. Ronald

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm. — Christos Tsiolkas

Psychopaths are odd and rare and unique by themself... if they were writers, I bet in one that they will be the best... — Deyth Banger

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background. — Rick Bragg

Sometimes saying 'goodbye' may be the best thing to say to someone! — Avijeet Das

The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage. — Joanna Scott

It happens to all writers, all artists, they can live beyond their best work and carry on with disappointment and mediocrity. — Chloe Thurlow

Writers are liars trying to come clean. That's why the best ones are the most tragic. — Anthony Marais

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend. — Solange Nicole

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone. — Michael Chabon

Some writers build a puzzle from the pieces others give to them. Best writers build their own pieces, their own puzzle. — J. A. Pena Fernandez

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much. — Don Roff

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation. — George Plimpton

Go somewhere or go nowhere, the choice is yours. — Steven Cuoco

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters. — Brian A. McBride

[Uncentering the Earth] itself is uncentering in the best possible way. Vollmann is one of the deepest, most fully ensouled writers alive. — David Foster Wallace

It's a great day to write a best-seller. — Buffy Andrews

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. — Raymond Chandler

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics. — Anthony Burgess

Writers are the biggest liars, only the best. — Marty Rubin

All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best. — Simon Toyne

Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles. — Norm MacDonald

The greatest writers have no purpose but to incite in the minds of each reader the highest and best thought of which they are capable. — Dee Hock

I think the best thing about being a writer is getting to dream. It's constantly viewing life through the "what if?" lens. — Kevin J. Fitzgerald

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down. — Carla H. Krueger

The best writers attempt to become alternative historians. — Colum McCann

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver. — Patricia C. Wrede

Be the best you. — A.D. Posey

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst — Susan Cheever

The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job. — Robert Knepper

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have. — John Irving

The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination. — Tim Campbell

I base a deuteragonist on the best friend I never had. A lot of good ideas come from what I never had and cause my imagination to light up. — B.A. Gabrielle

Best advice to writers - Read, write, read, write - repeat! — Lilly Cain

I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it's free. — Christy Hall

The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility. — Sarah MacLean

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war. — Roger Waters

All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics. — Carla H. Krueger

The best writing is embarrassing; that's all there is to it. — A.D. Posey

The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer. — Shannon L. Alder

I've been really lucky to work with some of the best writers in the business. — Cullen Bunn

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life. — Anita Loos

It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves. — Olivia Newton-John

The best writers stay out of their own way. — Richard Rybicki

The best kind of day is a writing day — Buffy Andrews

There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wayne Curtis is one of our very best writers! — David Adams Richards

Writers are remembered for their best work, politicians for their worst mistakes, and businessmen are almost never remembered. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The best gift you can give me is a book. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best writers are usually the most voracious & diverse readers! — C.S. Dixon

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

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories. — Chuck Palahniuk

Writers will happen in the best of families. — Rita Mae Brown

I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do. — Oscar Hijuelos

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago. — Lillian Hellman

Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic. — C.C. Wyatt

I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes ... put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack — Nina Jean Slack

Not every classic book was the best thing ever. Each book has flaws, and it's up to writers to change things. — Tim Holtorf

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around. — Robert Boswell

Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far. — Thomas Perry

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written. — Jared Harris

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?
Y.C.: An unhappy childhood. — Ernest Hemingway,

The best writers were philosophers who wrapped their commentary about life in laughter. — Dick Van Dyke

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can. — Julian Barnes

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies. — Deana J. Driver

It's okay to fail. It does not make you forever a failure. In fact, there are no failures really. Only human beings doing the best they can. — Christy Hall

I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work. — Mark W. Boyer

I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits. — Rick Moranis

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing. — Alan Dean Foster

It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women. — Toni Jerrman

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much. — Hilary Mantel

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today. — Bradley Sands

The best of my essence is shown to those who value my energy and appreciate my love, some would call it selfish, I call it selective. — Nikki Rowe