Alexander McCall Smith
Related ORSON SCOTT CARD CORNELIA FUNKE DANIEL TAMMET JOHN LE CARRE ANNE SEXTON Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they cre... CHELSEA CAIN JOHN LE CARRE RICHARD YATES All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world b... CHRISTOPHER KOCH Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their crea... JEFF MANGUM After 45, people are at a point in their lives where they know themselves, feel at home in their bod... LAURA BERMAN Hearing from the writers is very useful to apprentice writers. They gain inspiration and learn more ... ANNA MONARDO CRAIG GROESCHEL SAM SHEPARD CHAIM POTOK ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH SALMAN RUSHDIE If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v... LENNIE JAMES LES BROWN RAM SHRIRAM AARON SORKIN KAREN JOY FOWLER AMY LOWELL MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO AMY LOWELL ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I ... HA JIN W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives. DAMON GALGUT Very few of these people make it to a treatment facility. They usually find another source. They usu... MARC KLEINMAN M.F. MOONZAJER MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON AMY LOWELL GENE FOWLER If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them... ISOBELLE CARMODY I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read the... GAIL Z. MARTIN Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are conti... JENNIFER ARMSTRONG STEPHEN KING EMMA DONOGHUE HARRY HARRISON We do often attract former teachers and other professionals who spend their lives around books and e... ANNE ROMAN There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're ble... DAVID GRANN G. WILLOW WILSON There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, s... NANCY KRESS The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not ver... A. HARVEY BLOCK Writers witnessing actors read their stories will often come away very confused because they'll have... BILL BUFORD But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish th... MATT RUFF MANUEL PUIG AMY LOWELL CONNIE STEVENS I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v... TATIANA DE ROSNAY ELIF SHAFAK GORE VIDAL RAY BRADBURY A HARVEY BLOCK BILL WALSH EDMUND BURKE For the few people who stayed (in Port Arthur), they could lose their lives. That's a very real poss... CARL GRIFFITH Our city and our world is so much more complicated. All of the writers in our series chose to addres... ABRAM HIMELSTEIN ROMAN PAYNE Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there. BEVERLY CLEARY I think most people are just trying to be happy, and that most of their actions, however misguided, ... LISA UNGER HOWIE MANDEL F. SIONIL JOSE Obviously, (the Red Raiders) are very well coached. They run their stuff until they get a good look.... REGGIE THEUS However, our experience shows that once proof-of-concept code is released, virus writers are usually... KASPERSKY LAB ANTHONY T. HINCKS BEBE REXHA I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such... YOUSUF KARSH FRANCIS BACON People are very angry ... farmers are fighting for their lives. JOSE BOVE It's just very bad for Northwest. It shows their arrogance towards everybody, not only their workers... BOBBY DEPACE DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER SYLVESTER STALLONE DIANE SETTERFIELD Some people operate at very high levels of Hypocrisy in their lives and this is why they believe eve... JOHN LEACH These are girls just starting to figure out who they are as individuals. who they are as people. The... LACY ASBILL JEFFREY FRY They're crazy. Their cheers are coordinated. They just love to have fun out there. They support thei... CHARLES DAVIS CELSO CUKIERKORN CHIEF SEATTLE DAVID MITCHELL The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and w... ANTHONY MACKIE EDDIE VEDDER STEPHEN RICHARDS There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the... A. SCOTT BERG For many people, the reason they're keeping their financial life in chaos is that they really don't ... CATHERINE WILLIAMS DANNY SILK ANATOLE BROYARD Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things ... BOB RICHARDS Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will
really accomplish great things ... BOB RICHARDS OCTAVIO PAZ The situation is very serious, but the people are very serious too and have no intention of giving u... EDWARD SEAGA JORGE LUIS BORGES JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life?PAUL ARDEN RICKY MARTIN
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You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create... 
You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written b... 
I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writer... 
I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tensio... 
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That... 
Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? 
Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... 
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w... 
I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of pe... 
Why not imagine a talk with a pumpkin? Why not imagine going off for a drive with a friendly pumpkin... 
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; t... 
We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people... 
You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their... 
But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watch... 
I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hea... 
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason ... 
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w... 
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w... 
Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one n... 
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. 
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties 
Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called ... 
Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care,... 
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w... 
...writers are often the worst judges of what they have written. 
Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up. 
Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad. 
We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black... 
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope ... 
I love Siberians because they are so beautiful to look at. They are certainly not pushovers, though;... 
Male writers are thought of as "writers" first and then "men". As for female writers, they are first... 
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take ... 
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits ... 
The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not ver... 
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't... 
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system,
are wisely careful never to set up a... 
Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husban... 
We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience. 
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their pa... 
People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life. 
I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music. 
Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,... 
Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well ... 
Why people become writers??
I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things.... 
Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in ... 
You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. 
Cheap people often are not very happy because they love money more than they love their families 
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure the... 
I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up. 
People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a g... 
The Jedi is a practitioner of mind mastery. He realizes that whatever they are experiencing, they ar... 
Powerful people take responsibility for their lives and choices. Powerful people choose who they wan... 
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with lov... 
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books th... 
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past... 
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. ... 
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. ... 
We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are strugglin... 
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. 
Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have t... 
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. 
I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.