Writers Quotes

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Orson Scott Card

Important, Everything, Ideas

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
Carlos Fuentes

Great, Mexico, Mexican

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
Amy Tan

Culture, Burden, Represent

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
Walter Pater

Beauty, Art, Poetry

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.
Murray Gell-Mann

Sense, Rather, Often

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
Louise Brown

Book, Same, Write

In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we're not aware of. This could be the 'in-between the notes generation.'
Garrett Hedlund

Time, Different, Through

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
R. L. Stine

Writing, Different, Worry

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
Eudora Welty

Knowing, Alike, Travelers

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Irwin Shaw

Good, Bad, Forget

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
Irwin Shaw

Work, Writing, Find

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

Try, Short, Fiction

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
Irwin Shaw

Period, Height, Hounded

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
Irwin Shaw

House, White, Liked

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

Life, Work, Big

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

Great, Care, Themselves

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

Great, Same, Wanted

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Jim Harrison

Works, Publishing, Concepts

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
Jim Harrison

Sex, Wish, Write

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.
Harvey Pekar

Mad, While, Step

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.
Harvey Pekar

Book, Sun, Influenced

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
Jack Black

Great, Face, Looks

Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.
Margot Kidder

Nothing, Giving, While

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.
Iain Banks

Life, Love, Writing

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.
Janis Ian

Lazy, Else, Keep

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
Laurie Anderson

Art, Mean, Thinking

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
Fiona Shaw

Before, Often, Next

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Walter Benjamin

Writing, Poor, Write

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
Dan Castellaneta

Humor, Time, Freedom

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
Elias Canetti

Great, Read, Known

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