Writers Quotes

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Thought, Capable, Variety

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.
Susan Orlean

Advice, Used, Realize

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
Rita Mae Brown

Said, Step, Bisexual

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.
Neil Gaiman

Rock, Stars, Tour

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
James Wolcott

Keep, Sure, Talking

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
Morgan Freeman

Nothing, Reason, Fact

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.
Joss Whedon

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
Camille Paglia

Young, American, Older

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
Salman Rushdie

Fight, Try, Same

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
Doris Lessing

Fame, Worrying, Posthumous

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
Doris Lessing

Living, Sense, Lives

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
Toni Morrison

Enjoy, American, Native

My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
Christopher Meloni

Great, Thought, Why

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
Wole Soyinka

Music, Struggle, Nothing

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Fulton J. Sheen

Time, Pay, Four

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Time, Political, American

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Great, Government, Country

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
James Thurber

Humor, Become, Rather

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
Jackie Chan

Trust, Time, American

I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don't tan.
Diablo Cody

Summer, White, Tan

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.
Diablo Cody

Work, Time, Live

I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!
Susan Orlean

Spring, Might, Quite

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone

Successful, Dangerous, Mediocrity

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.
Neil Gaiman

Time, Good, Home

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
Doris Lessing

After, Big, Started

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
Doris Lessing

True, Down, Write

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Erica Jong

Wisdom, Fool, Human

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
Erica Jong

Forgotten, Vicious, Reviews

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
Stephen Sondheim

Why, Rich, Poor

At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.
James Wolcott

Between, Voice, Break

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