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I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique. — Bartlett Sher

One is far better off feeling than one is thinking. — A.D. Posey

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking. — Bertolt Brecht

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

Material poverty doesn't cause
murder, rape or terror.Mental poverty does. — Derric Yuh Ndim

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers. — Damon Lindelof

If I knew what I was thinking [ ... ] I would never have become a writer. — Amelie Nothomb

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers. — Lauren Mayberry

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life. — Lauren Groff

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern. — P.D. James

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. — Gene Weingarten

Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood — David Seltzer

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers. — Patti Smith

I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which makes us dangerous. — Tom Barbash

But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, alright sucker, now what? — Peter S. Beagle

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Red Haircrow

We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world. — Larry Kramer

I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers. — Akiva Goldsman

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. — Terry Gilliam

I can't help but to wonder with my thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers. — Phillip Knightley

Don't be great at wishful thinking, you'll never get anything done. — Darrick Williams

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use. — Marge Piercy

Your most precious asset is your right thinking! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's our decisions, not our conditions, that ultimately shape the quality of our lives. — Derric Yuh Ndim

Imagination is the greatest solitude — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized. — Mindy Kaling

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.' — Amelie Nothomb

I have always enjoyed my solitude. It gives me time to think and to write. — Avijeet Das

Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out. — Jason E. Hodges

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. — William Golding

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night. — Grace Paley

I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else. — Paul Auster

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself. — William S. Burroughs

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck. — Joyce Rachelle

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of. — Matthew Specktor

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves. — J. Anthony Lukas

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others. — Wole Soyinka

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race. — Aman Jassal

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read. — Aimee Mann

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about. — Brad Listi

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

I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing. — Anne Enright

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on, but they're explorers. — Walter Mosley

Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves, — William Zinsser

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

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 seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves. — Helen Garner