I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
Alfred North Whitehead

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

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
Marilyn Hacker

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
Don DeLillo

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
Don DeLillo

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
Don DeLillo

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
Don DeLillo

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

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
John Legend

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

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.
Dom DeLuise

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

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
Philip K. Dick

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
Sheryl Crow

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
Steven Pinker

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
Jack Dempsey

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
Jose Saramago

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

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