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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

You will not publish 100% of the books you don't write. — M. Kirin

Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what's going on around them when they are the center of attention. — Gary Reilly

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

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade. — Nina Bawden

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

The words that come out of your imagination are your own - just be sure they are. — Rusty Blackwood

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

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is. — Eric Idle

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book. — Aditi Dufare

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

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both. — Jane Yolen

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 bride
to 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

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

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 sky, with a single star, would be dark and boring. A million stars in the firmament makes for something wondrous and bright. — Beem Weeks

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written. — Stephen King

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor. — JoAnn Ross

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

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. — Roy Kesey

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

Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too. — Robynn Tolbert

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

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer. — A.D. Posey

New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection. — Christy Hall

Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle. — Hill Harper

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

I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear. — John Nettles

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

Yes the sex scenes are explicit but we all love the dirty bits! — Airam

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could. — Rob Bignell, Editor

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books. — Chrys Fey

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

I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression. — Casey Stengel

The writers could always do an about-face and change everything — Vera Farmiga

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. — Erica Jong

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. — Dan Simmons

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

One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely. — Lev Shestov

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

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor. — Rockne S. O'Bannon