I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert Frost

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
Samuel Goldwyn

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
Wilson Mizner

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
John Steinbeck

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Aldous Huxley

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. Heinlein

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
William Faulkner

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker

George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.
Ringo Starr

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Isaac Asimov

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Isaac Asimov

Writers speak stench.
Franz Kafka

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
Yo-Yo Ma

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Gore Vidal

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Gore Vidal