Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Irwin Shaw

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.
Ajay Naidu

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.
Penelope Lively

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.
Brian Lumley

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.
Stanley Crouch

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
David Wilkerson

Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.
Marcus V. Pollio

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.
Laurell K. Hamilton

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
Marilyn Hacker

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
Irwin Shaw

At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.
Chuck Klosterman

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
Irwin Shaw

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
Irwin Shaw

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
Don DeLillo

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
Sheryl Crow

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.
Richard O'Brien

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
Hugh MacDiarmid

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
Mark Haddon

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barbara Walters

We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything.
James Lipton