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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
If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what's going on around them when they are the center of attention.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 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
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
— Marcus Valerius Martialis
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
— Aaron Sorkin
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
These aren't accidents. They are significant choices, like the choice of a totemic animal: something in your spirit aligns with theirs.
— Phyllis Rose
Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.
— Janette Rallison
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
— Julius Wellhausen
Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.
— Jason E. Hodges
both were writers of high ambition, with
— Gyles Brandreth
I always hate saying 'goodbye.
— Avijeet Das
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
— Stephen Ambrose
It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.
— Christopher Bram
Listen to what speaks to your heart.
— A.D. Posey
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
Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
— John Steinbeck
To inspire is revealing the unpolished bits before perfection.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.
— Christopher Bram
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
One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.
— Lev Shestov
Persistence can look a lot like stupid.
— Kristen Lamb
Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.
— Sara Sheridan
The written word is greatest sacred documentation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
Writers are so important.
— Adam Driver
Beginning hook readers. Endings create fans.
— Martha Alderson
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
There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.
— Claire Tomalin
But the book! The siren song of the book!
— Ellen Douglas
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
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
There are more writers who read than readers who write.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"
Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author." — Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author." — Neil Gaiman
Days become weeks. Weeks become months. Month become years. And years become silence.
— Christy Hall
Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.
— Sara Sheridan
Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.
— Sara Sheridan
Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry.
— Lucy Poate Stebbins
I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.
— Sandra Cisneros
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
All really good writers use fragments.
— Priscilla Long
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
Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
— John Cheever
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.
— R. K. Milholland
Rejection is no badge of honour.
— Johnny Rich
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
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
If you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while ...
— John Geddes
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
— Jonathan Kozol
Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.
— Jack M. Bickham
Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
— Ted Dekker
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
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
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
— Amity Gaige
Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.
— Pankaj Mishra
The greatest writers have persistence.
— Gina B. Nahai
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
— Sinclair Lewis
Junior writers $300; Minor poets - $500 a week; Broken novelists - $850-1000; One play dramatists - $1500; Sucks - $2000. Wits - $2500.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
— Emile M. Cioran
Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you.
— Christy Hall
Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic.
— C.C. Wyatt
Every painting tells a story.
— A.D. Posey