Interesting Writers Quotes

#1. Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do not read, but that they don't read because there are no interesting writers.

Enock Maregesi

#2. Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far.

Thomas Perry

#3. It's always interesting for me to watch the pilot of an established show because you see how the writers and actors weren't really sure what the show was and what the dynamics were. If you look at the pilot for 'Seinfeld,' for example, it's practically unrecognizable.

Johnny Galecki

#4. I trust the [series] writers when I'm filming, because it's interesting for me to go in every week and see what's going to happen, and the challenge for me as the actor is to make it work.

John Barrowman

#5. Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

Alain De Botton

#6. Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common.

Vestal McIntyre

#7. Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.

Len Deighton

#8. It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

Greg Kinnear

#9. What's interesting about the relationship between gay men and women is there can be a lot of affection, but there's a line that you don't cross.

Michael Carroll

#10. The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

John Lancaster Spalding

#11. For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work.

Steve Erickson

#12. It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

Terry Pratchett

#13. Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.

Adam Mansbach

#14. In the old days,' he said, 'writers' lives were more interesting than their writing. Now-a-days neither their lives nor the writing is interesting.

Charles Bukowski

#15. If there weren't so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.

Nancy Kress

#17. One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

Yo-Yo Ma

#18. 'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth.

Eric Balfour

#19. Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.

Michael Morpurgo

#20. Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures, they usually do a pretty good (or pretty awful, but always interesting) job of lying.

John Hodgman

#21. He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply because he felt he had interesting stories to tell that people might like to hear.

Andrew James Pritchard

#22. Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

Jakucho Setouchi

#23. My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

Pierre Berton

#24. When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

Elizabeth Moon

#25. Writers of nonfiction have the right - perhaps even the responsibility - to access the wonders of the writer's craft to make their work interesting and enjoyable.

Sol Stein

#26. For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth
and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps and whatnot that show voice and make a book unique from all the other super shiny flat surfaces

Lori Foster

#27. Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

Lillian Hellman

#28. The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.

William Devane

#29. All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

Kurt Vonnegut

#30. I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

Gillian Flynn

#31. Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

Monica Johnson

#32. On working with other writers: You develop honesty and you can then ask the really embarrassing questions. I have learned so many things I didn't want to know, and they were all a result of interesting interviews for background information.

Dan Alatorre

#33. I found this quote for writers on Twitter:
There is a fine line between confidence and delusional thought; cross it.
Don't know who wrote it but thought it was interesting.

Robin Glasser

#34. It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.

Rachel Weisz

#35. After 'Nikki' and 'Steve Harvey,' I had written on a show called 'The Oblongs,' which was pretty well respected and had a lot of 'Simpsons' writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment.

Jill Soloway

#36. TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

Vince Gilligan

#37. Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

Sigourney Weaver

#38. James Patterson, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, so far these are the best horror writers, but I will continue searching for other interesting horror and twisted writers even like James Wan.

Deyth Banger

#39. If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's block or how to deal with any problem that can come up - whether you're writing about yourself or a group of people, I find that very interesting.

Jim Rash

#40. The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.

James Salter

#41. Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

Salman Rushdie

#42. You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.

William S. Burroughs

#43. Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel.

Claire Wingfield

#44. He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.

Adam Langer

#45. I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic.

Jim Rash

#46. In Soviet writing the demonization of all forms of Ukrainian nationalism has a long tradition, and would make an interesting study in itself. Soviet writers considered almost any criticism of their state - and, from the 1930s, of the Russian Empire - as "fascist" or "counterrevolutionary,

Myroslav Shkandrij

#47. The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting, innovative and exciting stuff in science fiction. I was inspired by that.

Lisa Tuttle

#48. We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.

Marcia Muller

#49. It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.

Toni Jerrman

#50. I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.

Joseph Kanon

#51. The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers.

Jackie Collins

#52. When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

Alison Mosshart

#53. Always let life be wild. Forever have life be interesting.

A.D. Posey

#54. Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.

Ben Eine

#55. It's interesting because diversity doesn't just happen by garnishing your omelet with a little bit of parsley. Diversity happens because the people that are telling the stories - the writers, directors, storytellers - want to tell their story.

Kelvin Yu

#56. Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good - they are the heroes of their own lives. Giving them a fair chance as characters can create some interesting shades of gray - and shades of gray are also a part of life.

Stephen King

#57. Everyone who made 'Save the Date,' like the writers and the director, they're all happily married and not anti-marriage at all, so that was kind of interesting to me.

Lizzy Caplan

#58. What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those domestic duties, deal with personal and cultural lack of respect for doing what is lingeringly perceived as 'women's work.'

Sherwood Smith

#59. I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of 'Supergirl' and trying to get it right. It can be a challenge, because you don't want it to be the same as the Superman story.

Helen Slater

#60. When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was not just entertainment, it was the center of people's lives. When I was young, it was exciting and interesting.

Fran Lebowitz

#61. Fortunately, we have writers who very much respect the classic characters and the integrity of the classic characters, that are also terrific comedy writers and are able to put these classic characters in new and interesting, and quite funny situations for today.

Bob Bergen

#62. Exaggeration in every sense is as essential to newspaper writing as it is to the writing of plays: for the point is to make as much as possible of every occurrence. So that all newspaper writers are, for the sake of their trade, alarmists: this is their way of making themselves interesting.

Arthur Schopenhauer