I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.
Natalie Portman

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.
Howie Mandel

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Edna Ferber

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
John Gould

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
Seamus Heaney

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
Andrzej Wajda

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
Greg Egan

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
John Le Carre

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.
John Le Carre

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
Henry Rollins

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman

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

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.
Alexis Bledel

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.
Mark Haddon

I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.
Paul Auster

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.
Tim Roth