Top 100 Writers Are Quotes
#1. Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
Beverly Cleary
#2. In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.
Michael Graves
#3. Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like ... you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.
Anne Sexton
#4. Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.
Vincent H. O'Neil
#5. Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
Aaron Sorkin
#6. Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.
William Zinsser
#7. Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#8. Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy.
Heinrich Boll
#9. I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.
William Monahan
#10. Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.
Alan Zweibel
#11. The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.
Bette Davis
#13. Writers are b*tc*ing about 140 characters. If you can't make a point in two sentences, how good is that book of yours really going to be?
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A.W. Tozer
#14. Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.
Bonnie Friedman
#15. Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's hard not to when you have a million different people's personalities playing out in your head.
Sai Marie Johnson
#16. When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.
Jennifer Stone
#17. People think writers are always feeling inspired. That's only about 5% of it. 95% is the daily discipline to just sit and write.
Bruce Van Horn
#18. I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.
Doris Lessing
#19. It's been proven that writers are funnier when they are demoralized.
Mindy Kaling
#20. Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.
Luke Taylor
#21. In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.
Anthony Bourdain
#22. The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
James A. Michener
#23. Writers are not paid for their words. They are paid for their perseverance.
John Briggs
#24. Writers are explorers who find new worlds and use words to bring them to our reality.
D. Anne Paris
#25. I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.
Paul Auster
#26. Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.
Linda Nelson
#27. I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.
Jeanette Winterson
#28. Especially when writers are just starting out, the emphasis should be not only upon what they write, but equally upon the process of writing. A successful class is a class where no one feels that 'writer's block' is a high-priority subject.
Mary Oliver
#29. I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
Fiona Shaw
#30. One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable about things that happened to them.
Paul Theroux
#32. Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional.
Stacy Schiff
#33. Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.
Ogwo David Emenike
#34. They are very good reasons why voice acting in games can be so terrible. Writers are in a great position to be able to bridge this gap.
Rhianna Pratchett
#35. Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out.
Megan McArdle
#37. To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.
Tom Wolfe
#38. Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.
Donna Lynn Hope
#40. Writers are the biggest liars, only the best.
Marty Rubin
#41. I'm not one of those actors who likes to analyze things too much, so I trust what the writers are doing with the characters, in order to give them their journey. My job is to come in and try to make those words on the page come alive on camera.
John Barrowman
#42. You know how writers are ... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
Orson Scott Card
#43. What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#44. We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.
John Banville
#45. Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
Rachel Ward
#46. Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won't coalesce ever again.
Nicholson Baker
#47. Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.
China Mieville
#48. Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
Bette Davis
#49. I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.
Rene Russo
#50. You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.
James Gandolfini
#51. Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations.
Linda Durbin
#53. Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
Iris Johansen
#55. Words in books can remind us of truth, and help awaken us to it. But in themselves, words are just paint and writers are just painters ... Let us not overestimate the power of any form of literature.
David James Duncan
#56. They had me all happy, singing. It was very awkward. I think the writers are frantically planning something appropriate to honor him, but we don't know what.
Kristin Chenoweth
#57. Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me." "But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe me. The human world is made up of stories, not people.
David Mitchell
#58. Artists, composers and writers...are bent upon capturing and reining in the insights of a fugitive imagination, always inclined to shoot off into the distance, before they can get away, and on bringing them back into the immediacy of material engagement. Like hunters, they too are dream-catchers.
Tim Ingold
#59. I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
Tom Stoppard
#60. Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.
Richard Russo
#61. I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
Margaret Mahy
#62. The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.
Robertson Davies
#63. All good writers are weird. Proudly weird.
Margo Rabb
#64. If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.
Tom Wolfe
#65. I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.
John Steinbeck
#66. My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
Zig Ziglar
#67. Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry.
Ellie Rose McKee
#68. I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work - and each other. You're my friend? Don't pick up that pen!
Chila Woychik
#69. Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.
Alexis De Veaux
#70. I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
A.S. Byatt
#71. Writers are archeologists of themselves.
Vicki Grove
#72. I am broken the way most writers are, stories leaking through the cracks.
Victoria Schwab
#73. Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
Samuel Johnson
#74. No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.
Brad Stone
#75. Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren't necessarily human, are they?
Alyssa Hubbard
#76. Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns ... the writers are back!
Jon Stewart
#77. Later on in life you will learn that writers are merely open, helpless texts with no real understanding of what they have written and therefore must half-believe anything and everything that is said of them.
Lorrie Moore
#78. It's always a treat to have something that lets me explore a different period. I do try to be a stickler, as much as I can, but luckily the writers are, as well.
Tom Mison
#79. The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work in the form of e-books is very much up in the air.
Graham Swift
#80. We all have our opinions. But I suspect that writers are actually less worth heeding, because they regard themselves as so uniquely important, so culturally sensitive.
Simon Hoggart
#81. I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.
Kirby Wright
#82. The Daily Show writers are incredibly smart and very well plugged-in but occasionally they would need me for certain specific things, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I completely know how to do that; I can solve that problem,and then I'd be like, 'Mom?
Aasif Mandvi
#83. Writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.
Susan Sontag
#84. Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
Wole Soyinka
#85. I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
Eric Idle
#86. Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
W.P. Kinsella
#88. Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
Barry Hannah
#89. Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.
Anthony Browne
#90. For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.
Teju Cole
#91. All good storytellers are of necessity good writers - even if they may be poorly edited ones. Unfortunately, not all good writers are good storytellers.
Nupur Tustin
#92. The Difference between Writers and Editors.
Writers are creative using one end of a pencil.
Editors are more adept using the opposite end.
Roy A. Higgins
#93. Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.
Chuck Klosterman
#94. I use "perpetrated" because it's the kind of word that passive-voice writers are fond of. They prefer long words of Latin origin to short Anglo-Saxon words - which compounds their trouble and makes their sentences still more glutinous. Short is better than long. Of the 701 words in
William Zinsser
#95. 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
#96. Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
Larry Cohen
#97. Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
Jeff Daniels
#98. Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.
John Hall Wheelock
#99. All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story ... They are terrible people.
Nina Bawden
#100. A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have certain intents. But a lot of people would be surprised to know that writers are pretty flexible when it comes to their work.
Glenn Ficarra
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