Writers Quotes

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with real comedy, there will be tragic moments in it.

All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the best, most entertaining article that you can.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write.

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers.

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature.

If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English.

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.

J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.