Quotes of: Writers Keyword

Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.

The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena

Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?

The Book of Flights

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills

Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight; I'm happy to be the exception.

The Borrower

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

Anthony Horowitz

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

George Edward Woodberry

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

Joyce Carol Oates

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

Anthony Minghella

I have a lot of favorite films. I tend to love the silliness of 'Bringing Up Baby.' 'Charade' is fantastic. 'His Girl Friday,' the banter in that, that alone made me want to be a writer.

Jennifer Grant

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Jessamyn West

Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.

Simon Van Booy

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Susan Sontag

'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

Keeley Hawes

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

Rachel Caine

That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers.

Richelle Mead

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

Alicia Keys

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.

David Lloyd

America takes her writers too seriously.

The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Killosophy

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

Killosophy