Quotes on Writers

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Author: Walter Bagehot

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

Author: Ann Beattie

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Author: Thomas Berger

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

Author: Alain Botton

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

Author: Mel Brooks

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

Author: Eric Brown

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

Author: Rita Brown

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

Author: Dan Castellaneta

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

Author: Emile Cioran

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

Author: Beverly Cleary

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

Author: Jonathan Coe

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Author: Mason Cooley

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

Author: Mackenzie Crook

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

Author: Sheryl Crow

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.

Author: Patti Davis

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Author: Don DeLillo

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

Author: Dom DeLuise

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.

Author: William Devane

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

Author: Greg Egan

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

Author: Andrew Eldritch

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

Author: Cliff Fadiman

Writers always know whether you like them or not.

Author: Leslie Fiedler

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Author: Anna Freud

All writers are vampires.

Author: James Gandolfini

I think writers are very anxious.

Author: Helen Garner

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

Author: Matt Groening

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.

Author: Laurell Hamilton

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

Author: Chrissie Hynde

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.

Author: Eric Idle

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

Author: Guillermo Infante

I do enjoy working with writers.

Author: Neil Jordan

Writers speak stench.

Author: Franz Kafka

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.

Author: Paul Kane

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

Author: Philip Kaufman

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

Author: Ben Kingsley

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

Author: John Legend

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Author: Sinclair Lewis

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

Author: Brian Lumley

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Author: Daphne Maurier

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

Author: Terry McMillan

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

Author: John Metcalf

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

Author: Daniel Moran

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

Author: Howard Nemerov

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

Author: Mary Oliver

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

Author: Craig Raine

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

Author: Harold Ross

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

Author: Karl Schlegel

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

Author: Fiona Shaw

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Author: Aaron Sorkin

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

Author: Bill Walsh

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

Author: Eudora Welty

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

Author: Connie Willis

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

Author: Tobias Wolff