Writers Quotes

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.

I'm aware of the writers who have previously received the Gold Dagger and I'm honoured to have my name on the same page.

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

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

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

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

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.