1525 Writers Quotes for You to Enjoy

Writers of literature make very little money. Ethan Canin

Money Writers Make Very Literature Little Little Money

It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too. Ethan Canin

Too Say Scale Poets Writers Safe Fiction Fiction Writers

I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate. Ethan Canin

Invent Think Battles Exaggerate Writers How How Much Fiction Fiction Writers Much

The only successful way to write, and the only one I have found, is to be the character. Give up on trying to control them. Writers always talk about hearing voices. That's what they mean. Ethan Canin

Character Control Way About Give Only Voices Write Writers Talk Always Hearing Up Trying Mean Them Successful Found

Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics which is going to count, but the fact of having given life to feelings, of having created characters and made a living work of art. Eugene Ionesco

Life Work Politics Art Made Feelings Living Characters One Or Two Given Having Fact Writers Count Beyond Involved Goes Going Which Centuries Created Who Even Eventually Two

Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews. Evan Daugherty

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears. F. L. Lucas

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. F. Sionil Jose

People Past Too About Writers Greater Historians Truths Literature Found

I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years. F. Sionil Jose

People Young Our Pleasurable Draw Those Out Find Inspiration Writers Particularly Learn Talking Because Felt Always Years Nostalgia Young People Them Much Aspiring Oldies

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings. F. Sionil Jose

You Integrity Try Word Important Single Breakfast Defines Writers Perhaps Most Because Human Just Human Beings Beings Keep

I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders. F. Sionil Jose

Looking France Crippled Ghosts Shakespeare Writers Chaucer Feel Over Unsure Hugo China Victor Confucius Themselves Shoulders England Imagine

A writers' ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other's work on their own websites and via their social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter. Fabrizio Moreira

Definitely, I feel that there is a need for more female producers, directors, and writers. Farhan Akhtar

Definitely More Directors Writers Feel Female Producers Need

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts. Felix Adler

Knowledge You Legal Law Own Some Seek Point Writers Over Likely Obtain Efforts Order Information Ponder Your Desire

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. Florence King

Nothing Say Writers Always Metaphors Strain Who

A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers. Frances McDormand

Time Good Great Long Become Enough Frame Television Tell Directors Writers Performers Female Time Frame Story Storytelling Why

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them. Francesco Carrozzini

People Long Before Photograph Photographing Something More Directors Writers Study Like Done Interested Them Who Billionaires Even

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes. Frank Delaney

Strong Write Writers Part Likes Opinions Dislikes Therefore Why

I'm always a great student of writers' work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk's robe, and he always had to have a rotten apple on his desk. The smell of the apple inspired him somehow. Frank McCourt

There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life. Frank Peretti

Life Something More Writers Readers Get Want Who

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