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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be.

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

The problem with themes is that writers don't realise they are themes until someone points them out.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Together with script writers Sid Green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

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

I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

I don't really believe in closure. That's something that writers talk about or people wished that they had.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

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