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ABIGAIL GEORGE![]()
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LISA CRON Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are conti...
JENNIFER ARMSTRONG But this is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers h...
THOMAS FLEMING Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for thei...
AVIJEET DAS They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN![]()
Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to oursel...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA![]()
Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each t...
ROMAN PAYNE![]()
Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, B...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I ...
HA JIN![]()
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w...
SAM SHEPARD![]()
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country th...
JAMES A. MICHENER There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're ble...
DAVID GRANN![]()
You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written b...
CORNELIA FUNKE Prejudice against certain groups can come from the home. They learn by hearing their parents. If par...
KATHLEEN BREHONY PH![]()
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. FORSTER![]()
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. FORSTER![]()
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
WILLIAM GADDIS![]()
Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of th...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON![]()
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM![]()
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM![]()
Male writers are thought of as "writers" first and then "men". As for female writers, they are first...
ELIF SHAFAK Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and th...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Honor those who inspire you, who show you the way. The teachers, artists , writers, the healers. Res...
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I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writer...
DANIEL TAMMET Blessed are the weird people:
poets, misfits, writers
mystics, painters, troubadours
JACOB NORDBY Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they cre...
CHELSEA CAIN I think most writers, if they will admit it, have stories in their head all the time ... . The probl...
BARBARA HODGES The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speec...
RICK YANCEY![]()
I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hea...
KAREN JOY FOWLER![]()
Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
BERNARD CORNWELL Writers witnessing actors read their stories will often come away very confused because they'll have...
BILL BUFORD We try to get them comfortable here with the idea of writing, and keep them writing when they leave....
ED WILKS![]()
Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writer...
JAMES A. MICHENER Y escribir cada día,
ganar la lotería
de al menos una frase
que nadie ha dicho nunc...
HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE![]()
It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared. Now it's time to ...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers...
BRIAN HERBERT The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome a...
VICKI DELANY![]()
I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers&#...
NELSON ALGREN![]()
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't...
BILL WALSH The last chapter in 'Alice in Worcestershire' is called 'Writing the book'.
I started to write ...
ESKAY TEEL![]()
Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, ...
BILL GATES![]()
Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, ...
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I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have conclud...
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ISOBELLE CARMODY![]()
I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the im...
RICHARD WRIGHT![]()
Write only if you wish to read it again and again...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU![]()
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roug...
MARY OLIVER I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. The...
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We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bi...
MATT GROENING In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from...
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope ...
MANUEL PUIG The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being...
DAVID CRANE There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, s...
NANCY KRESS Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from th...
KATE BRAVERMAN Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
RACHEL WARD![]()
I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be b...
TOM WOLFE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world...
JACK HERER But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish th...
MATT RUFF![]()
Great characters- They are pivotal for a great plot. THEN a solid plot: Why then? If you do not have...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader....
OWEN WISTER![]()
Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enter...
KILROY J. OLDSTER![]()
He knew how to feed writers' egos, to make them want to write their best.
BILL MOYERS It is easy to find the problem. Knowing the difference between critique and criticism is the solutio...
JT SANZ![]()
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are ...
EDMUND WHITE![]()
Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional wr...
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Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a w...
AVI![]()
Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demo...
KILROY J. OLDSTER As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasures ...
JT SANZ![]()
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
IRVIN S. COBB![]()
Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
AVIJEET DAS At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative whe...
DANIEL AKST![]()
Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine ...
SUSAN J. MCINTIRE![]()
I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though m...
NIKKI GIOVANNI![]()
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account exec...
LEO BURNETT I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all cla...
TIMOTHY WEST If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they&#...
ADAM ROSS![]()
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write l...
ITALO CALVINO![]()
Both of the girls learn about how the other lives, learning about how the other person is in their s...
TONI COLLETTE![]()
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your due...
ALEX HALEY![]()
The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?
ALYSSA HUBBARD Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, i...
VICKI DELANY![]()
In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing se...
KEN LIU If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way ...
LORRIE MOORE![]()
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
AARON SORKIN![]()
The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '6...
JAMES WOLCOTT There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the...
A. SCOTT BERG![]()
Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called ...
M.F. MOONZAJER![]()
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out ...
GUNTER GRASS![]()
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the ...
BERNARD CORNWELL![]()
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ...
MARIA LENHART The girl clones at Singer Grove were just like the ones in Texas; they knocked themselves out to be ...
E.L. KONIGSBURG
CANDACE C. BOWEN This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures ...
ABIGAIL GEORGE
You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create... ORSON SCOTT CARD If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now ...
LISA CRON Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are conti...
JENNIFER ARMSTRONG But this is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers h...
THOMAS FLEMING Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for thei...
AVIJEET DAS They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN
Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to oursel... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each t... ROMAN PAYNE
Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, B... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I ...
HA JIN
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w... SAM SHEPARD
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country th... JAMES A. MICHENER There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're ble...
DAVID GRANN
You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written b... CORNELIA FUNKE Prejudice against certain groups can come from the home. They learn by hearing their parents. If par...
KATHLEEN BREHONY PH
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. E. M. FORSTER
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. E. M. FORSTER
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. WILLIAM GADDIS
Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of th... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Male writers are thought of as "writers" first and then "men". As for female writers, they are first... ELIF SHAFAK Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and th...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Honor those who inspire you, who show you the way. The teachers, artists , writers, the healers. Res...
EILEEN ANGLIN
I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writer... DANIEL TAMMET Blessed are the weird people:
poets, misfits, writers
mystics, painters, troubadours
JACOB NORDBY Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they cre...
CHELSEA CAIN I think most writers, if they will admit it, have stories in their head all the time ... . The probl...
BARBARA HODGES The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speec...
RICK YANCEY
I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hea... KAREN JOY FOWLER
Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass. BERNARD CORNWELL Writers witnessing actors read their stories will often come away very confused because they'll have...
BILL BUFORD We try to get them comfortable here with the idea of writing, and keep them writing when they leave....
ED WILKS
Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writer... JAMES A. MICHENER Y escribir cada día,
ganar la lotería
de al menos una frase
que nadie ha dicho nunc...
HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE
It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared. Now it's time to ... SHERWOOD ANDERSON My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers...
BRIAN HERBERT The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome a...
VICKI DELANY
I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers&#... NELSON ALGREN
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't... BILL WALSH The last chapter in 'Alice in Worcestershire' is called 'Writing the book'.
I started to write ...
ESKAY TEEL
Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, ... BILL GATES
Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, ... BILL GATES
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have conclud... JAMES A. MICHENER If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them...
ISOBELLE CARMODY
I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the im... RICHARD WRIGHT
Write only if you wish to read it again and again... RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roug... MARY OLIVER I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. The...
AMANDA HOCKING They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN
We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bi... MATT GROENING In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from...
ELEANOR CATTON
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope ... MANUEL PUIG The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being...
DAVID CRANE There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, s...
NANCY KRESS Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from th...
KATE BRAVERMAN Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
RACHEL WARD
I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be b... TOM WOLFE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world...
JACK HERER But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish th...
MATT RUFF
Great characters- They are pivotal for a great plot. THEN a solid plot: Why then? If you do not have... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader....
OWEN WISTER
Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enter... KILROY J. OLDSTER
He knew how to feed writers' egos, to make them want to write their best. BILL MOYERS It is easy to find the problem. Knowing the difference between critique and criticism is the solutio...
JT SANZ
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are ... EDMUND WHITE
Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional wr... MITCHEL RESNICK
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a w... AVI
Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demo... KILROY J. OLDSTER As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasures ...
JT SANZ
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. IRVIN S. COBB
Writers don't write, they read and transcribe. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
AVIJEET DAS At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative whe...
DANIEL AKST
Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine ... SUSAN J. MCINTIRE
I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though m... NIKKI GIOVANNI
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account exec... LEO BURNETT I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all cla...
TIMOTHY WEST If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they&#...
ADAM ROSS
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write l... ITALO CALVINO
Both of the girls learn about how the other lives, learning about how the other person is in their s... TONI COLLETTE
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your due... ALEX HALEY
The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?
ALYSSA HUBBARD Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, i...
VICKI DELANY
In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing se... KEN LIU If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way ...
LORRIE MOORE
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. AARON SORKIN
The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '6... JAMES WOLCOTT There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the...
A. SCOTT BERG
Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called ... M.F. MOONZAJER
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out ... GUNTER GRASS
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the ... BERNARD CORNWELL
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ... MARIA LENHART The girl clones at Singer Grove were just like the ones in Texas; they knocked themselves out to be ...
E.L. KONIGSBURG
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see... 
My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away ... 
'Cinderella' the cartoon scared me. I watched the bits with the mice, and the scenes with th... 
If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow. 
I'd always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they ha... 
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. 
I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something. 
Familiarity breeds content 
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feelin... 
No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius. 
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the s... 
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. 
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are 
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, a... 
Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. 
If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. 
That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-cit... 
All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an un... 
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerabilit... 
Let's face it, there are no plain women on television. 
Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better. 
Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men a... 
The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become m... 
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is the... 
In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Ye... 
I was very adept at acquiring languages. 
When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them w... 
I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are a... 
I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up ... 
There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born. 
Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age. 
When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When o... 
My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artis... 
Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the ... 
Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance. 
I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons. 