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Writers are often exiles, outsiders, runaways and castaways. — Jeanette Winterson

Writers are generally anonymous. It just that I think I got out there because I also act as well and put myself in my films. — Kevin Grevioux

Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what's going on around them when they are the center of attention.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

All writers are insane! — Cornelia Funke

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

(M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience. — Dennis McFadden

Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it — William Meikle

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

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

you are
so delicious
to my poetic side. — Sanober Khan

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize. — Danny Strong

Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet! — Sara Sheridan

We writers are resilient souls. — Lauren DeStefano

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

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language. — Jamie L. Harding

Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. — Flannery O'Connor

A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth! — Avijeet Das

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age — Aaron Sorkin

That sun is lookin' good ... and hot! Get it? Hilarious! My joke writers are awesome. — Tom Bergeron

These aren't accidents. They are significant choices, like the choice of a totemic animal: something in your spirit aligns with theirs. — Phyllis Rose

Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place. — Jason E. Hodges

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. — Louis Dudek

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

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world. — Ariel Gore

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society. — Jason E. Hodges

I think writers are very anxious. — Helen Garner

There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers. — Sara Sheridan

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. — Gore Vidal

Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. — David Frum

Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them. — Jennifer Donnelly

Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry. — Ellie Rose McKee

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price. — Walter Lippmann

That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain. — Markus Zusak

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life. — V.S. Pritchett

It's an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird. — William Goldman

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

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing. — Jyoti Arora

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. — Charles Baxter

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects. — John Lancaster Spalding

Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts. — Mike Tyson

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

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

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content. — Madame De Stael

when you are a child you unconsciously adopt certain beliefs. Yet, there comes
the necessity to upgrade these beliefs as you grow older. — Derric Yuh Ndim

You know how writers are ... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves. — Orson Scott Card

I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat. — Dana Stabenow

You are your own journey. — A.D. Posey

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers. — Marc Guggenheim

Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling. — Grace Bridges

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. — Caroline Leavitt

That's what a writer is -- a conqueror of fears. — Erica Jong

Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying. — William Zinsser

I'm with you in Rockland, where we are great writers on this same dreadful typewriter. — Allen Ginsberg

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world's pain on their shoulders. They are called writers. — M.F. Moonzajer

It requires writers to do two things that by their metabolism are impossible. They must relax, and they must have confidence. — William Zinsser

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

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

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. — Robert Hass

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

There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are more writers who read than readers who write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Writers are so important. — Adam Driver

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

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. — Stephen Ambrose

Persistence can look a lot like stupid. — Kristen Lamb

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

Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other. — Pankaj Mishra

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found. — Elizabeth Bowen

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead. — Sinclair Lewis

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

Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric. — 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

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. — John Cheever

Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation. — Tim Heaton

Great writers are the saints for the godless. — Anita Brookner

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins. — Anatole France

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

All the great writers are like that: the beauty of their sentences, like the beauty of a woman one has not yet met, is unforeseeable ... — Marcel Proust

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. — John Banville

Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us. — Sarah Black

Writers are idiots with Underwoods. — Darryl F. Zanuck

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens. — Jodi Picoult

Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for. — Robin Thede

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. — Lorrie Moore

If it isn't for the writing, we've got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it. — Irving Thalberg

We're happier when the assholes are villains. — Christopher Bram

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

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

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

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

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion. — William Strunk Jr.

If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers. — Jack Black

There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU. — Pandora Gray