1525 Writers Quotes for You to Enjoy

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors. Kyle Chandler

Faith Trust Enough Say About Having Writers Just Actor

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college. Kyle Kinane

Seriously College Young Take Writers Very Young Writers Themselves

There are certain expectations placed on writers if other people have put a value on their gender. I'm aware of the hundreds of tiny differences that happen when people are seeing your gender before they see something else. Laeta Kalogridis

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names. Larry Niven

Me Problem Writers Takes New Names Years Five Six Right

When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same. Laura Esquivel

Me Judge Thought Young Channel Both Through Inspiring Take Writers Part Excited Sharing Idea Contest Cultivating Author Same Essay Story Asked Helping Unique Program

I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world. Laura Harrier

World Strong Rest Writers Ideas Make Accessible Feminist Really Connect

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve. Lauren Tarshis

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Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just a festival of information. We're all analyzing and examining and predicting, and I can't imagine that it's like that everywhere else. Lauren Weisberger

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers. Laurie Colwin

Wisdom Alone Advice Past Solitary Kitchen Writers No-One Generations Most Surrounded Cook Cookbook Who Cooks Even Her Present

To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important to most writers, I must assume, or they try to research a given background on sabbatical. Not for me. I write about places I've lived long before I ever set pen to paper. Lawrence Osborne

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So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards speaking engagements and literary festivals and dinner parties. That has no interest for me these days. You get to a point where you don't care anymore. At that point, you can start to write. Lawrence Osborne

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If you're on a contract at 'The New Yorker,' the contract specifies the number of words you will publish in the magazine per year. I get paid by the word, like most writers. That's one reason why the Scientology article was 25,000 words long! Lawrence Wright

To reconstruct stories and scenes, nonfiction writers must conduct vigorous and responsible research. In fact, narrative requires more research than traditional reportage, for writers cannot simply tell what they learn and know; rather, they must show it. Lee Gutkind

Research Tell Responsible Must Reconstruct Rather More Scenes Fact Writers Simply Know Learn Narrative Nonfiction Traditional Conduct Than In Fact Stories Cannot Requires Show Vigorous

This is the first lesson for writers - or anyone - who conducts interviews: If you want someone to talk, you've got to know how to listen. And good listening is a surprisingly active process. The interviewee is your focus of attention; you are there to hear what he says and thinks, exclusively. Lee Gutkind

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I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great. Lee Hazlewood

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It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real. Lee Pace

Positive Job Writers Make Real

I, too, am interested in identity and Islam, which is what people expect of us. But one must not write what is expected. It's important for North African writers to show they have other things to say. Leila Slimani

My secret skill, if it even counts as one, is saying really crass things that sometimes end up as dialogue coming from other character's mouths. My inner salty sailor is alive and well - the only problem is most of the writers on our show are just as inappropriate, so at the end of the day, it's hard to tell who came up with the line. Lela Loren

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Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work. Leland Ryken

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Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive. Leland Stanford

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