Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.
Norman Lear

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

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
Mason Cooley

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
Steve Earle

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
Stephen Ambrose

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Carl Sandburg

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

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
Jeanette Winterson

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
Jim Harrison

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

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

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

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

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Gore Vidal

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
Jacques Barzun

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
Neil Gaiman

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.
Neil Gaiman

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

The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.
Kenneth Scott Latourette