1525 Writers Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Think Everybody Rush Writers Very Frightened Where Tread

Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written than what they are like to read. Hallgrimur Helgason

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Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale. Hannah Kent

Unknown Drawn Rather Writers Clear Tale Most Than Any

I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever. Hanya Yanagihara

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One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist. Hanya Yanagihara

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I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person. Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character. Hanya Yanagihara

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Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter. Harlan Ellison

Matter Everywhere Find Writers Invisible Go Treated

It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else. Harold Ramis

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John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand on a par, or even above, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Harry Belafonte

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I've worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch, but writers like Sam Shepard and singers like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. Harry Dean Stanton

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I get interested in writers who are enigmatic. Harry Hamlin

Writers Get Interested Who Enigmatic

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad. Harry Harrison

Good Bad Writers Most Comic Very Artists

I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does. Hattie Morahan

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I think writers are very anxious. Helen Garner

Think Writers Very Anxious

A few people have tried to make me see that my writing isn't quite their thing by saying to me: 'What about realism?' To which my general response is, 'What about it?' However, I wouldn't be at all surprised if one of my favorite writers, Marilynne Robinson, was to say something similar if asked 'What about the fantastic?' Helen Oyeyemi

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I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work. Helen Oyeyemi

Work Finished More Tend Writers Feel Perhaps Dead Because Connected

Youngsters are coming up with so many new ideas and doing small budget films, which is good. Even my daughter thinks of some subjects that are strange and different. But when I discussed it with some writers, they said it's fantastic. So I think young people are able to think something different. It's great! Hema Malini

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But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them. Henryk Sienkiewicz

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Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing. Hill Harper

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