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Everyone has a gift.
It's up to you to decide what you do with it.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I ...
HA JIN Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them....
TANITH LEE I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to...
PATRICK NESS It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going...
SINCLAIR LEWIS Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes...
TANITH LEE I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though m...
NIKKI GIOVANNI Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
THOMAS BERGER There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they...
STEPHEN DALDRY I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L...
RACHEL KUSHNER Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what t...
ISAIAH MUSTAFA At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.
DANIEL ALARCON I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. T...
ERIC IDLE The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
THOMAS BERGER I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers&#...
NELSON ALGREN Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write
ROBERT PENN WARREN In the old days, travel writers were given freebies and then supposed to write something nice.
IRENE CLURMAN You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Everyone has a story inside them. Some are bedtimes stories, some thrill and others scare and horrif...
C.K. WEBB Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
FLORENCE KING It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so...
RICHARD CURTIS Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and disli...
FRANK DELANEY Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Take your time, however long the book needs. I've seen a lot of promising careers go into declin...
SYLVIA DAY I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without hav...
CLAIRE MESSUD That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, s...
TARRYN FISHER I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
PAUL HAGGIS They have a viewpoint, they have a story to tell, and all of their photos tell that story. This isn'...
SUSAN DANLY Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate...
WALTER MOERS Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That...
ANNE SEXTON Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories an...
DONNA GODDARD He knew how to feed writers' egos, to make them want to write their best.
BILL MOYERS I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into in...
MELISSA ROSENBERG Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I think most writers, if they will admit it, have stories in their head all the time ... . The probl...
BARBARA HODGES Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.
GORE VIDAL Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of ot...
EDWARD HIRSCH Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.
ALEXIS BLEDEL They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I was influenced by big, strong voices - writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; ...
STACEY D'ERASMO There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America ...
MARK HADDON You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There was something very personal about shooting it here because we all grew up here. The writers al...
BEN REKHI All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world b...
CHRISTOPHER KOCH Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks thin...
ELBERT HUBBARD Only write what inspires you to write. If nothing inspires you write, anyhow. Something might come u...
A.J. CHILSON One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.

“Writing for te...
L.L. BARKAT A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
BRUCE BOXLEITNER Writers write while dreamers procastinate.
BESA KOSOVA At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative whe...
DANIEL AKST If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
IRVIN S. COBB You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It's nice when people say they want to raise money for you. Because it was brought to us by the writ...
DAVID GREENE Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write l...
ITALO CALVINO Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, con...
COCO J. GINGER Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
AARON SORKIN In the writers mind, even a backstory has a backstory.
TERRY A O'NEAL I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishi...
CHAD HARBACH Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are ...
KEVIN SPACEY In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists ...
RAY BRADBURY When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment....
CYRIL CONNOLLY If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them...
ISOBELLE CARMODY I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I thin...
DAVID NICHOLLS They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a gr...
SYLVIA PLATH Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because...
ALICE DREGER Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are ...
FRANK CRANE Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish t...
KURT VONNEGUT Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method...
WALTER BENJAMIN Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write the...
LLOYD ALEXANDER I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have conclud...
JAMES A. MICHENER It puts the workshop students in contact with other writers and also helps them to interact with the...
JAMES MCPHERSON We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beau...
HOWARD BARKER More than anything, I began to hate women writers. Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Browning, ...
CATHERINE LOWELL We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black...
G. WILLOW WILSON Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world...
JACK HERER Our medal predictions rested with our beat writers. Best in the World.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we n...
E. L. DOCTOROW Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of thei...
LINDA DURBIN I was part of a writers' collective with 21 writers and filmmakers called the San Francisco Writ...
NOAH HAWLEY They wanted to revive interest in the whole literary angle of James Bond, to remind the world that, ...
CHARLIE HIGSON Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
RITA MAE BROWN In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the...
JOHN WANAMAKER Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like...
JEFFREY KLARIK I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' se...
D. J. MACHALE It begins with the kind of story the writers want to tell. We never sit around in those retreats and...
JASON AARON That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the enterta...
GARRY TRUDEAU There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to ...
WOLE SOYINKA The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I alw...
KEVIN KWAN Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just...
GAYLE FORMAN There was something very personal about shooting it here because we all grew up here. The writers al...
BEN REKHI In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured o...
NEIL POSTMAN I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minut...
ANNE MCCAFFREY Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime wr...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would c...
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ALISON SWEENEY It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail poli...
ALISON SWEENEY The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog...
ALISON SWEENEY I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it'...
ALISON SWEENEY People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yours...
ALISON SWEENEY With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be eve...
ALISON SWEENEY I wasn't eating the right kinds of calories. I didn't know about healthy carbs such as brown...
ALISON SWEENEY I always cringe when people tell me they don't eat breakfast, as though that's a good thing....
ALISON SWEENEY Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. an...
ALISON SWEENEY One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to...
ALISON SWEENEY My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we ne...
ALISON SWEENEY We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from v...
ALISON GOPNIK Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerf...
ALISON JACKSON I do a lot of cardio. I think it's super important, especially for women. I don't have a tre...
ALISON SWEENEY If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but cons...
ALISON GOPNIK What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.
ALISON GOPNIK I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoon...
ALISON JACKSON Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about t...
ALISON BRIE I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but ...
ALISON GOODMAN