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

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
W. Somerset Maugham

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
Shelby Foote

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
Joan Didion

Writers are always selling somebody out.
Joan Didion

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden

Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with.
Tim Conway

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
James A. Michener

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
James A. Michener

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
Alain de Botton

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
Alain de Botton

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
Wanda Sykes

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. Forster

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
John Legend

Writers will happen in the best of families.
Rita Mae Brown

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
E. L. Doctorow

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'
Albert Finney

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.
Norman Lear