Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
It fills my heart with pride and joy that international food writers and press have taken an interest in Tijuana.
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.
I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go there to write a book.
Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.
I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
I love the idea of the literary salons in France where artists and writers would all come and talk and drink absinthe.
I've been a fan of Yoshida Akimi's manga for a long time; she's one of a few women's manga writers that I always read.
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations.
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
Most memoir writers will tell you that the hardest part of writing a memoir isn't what to include, but what to leave out.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope other people agree.