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

Writers are not meant for action.
Manuel Puig

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Oliver Goldsmith

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.
Ann Rule

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.
Susie Bright

I do enjoy working with writers.
Neil Jordan

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne du Maurier

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
Rita Dove

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.
John Metcalf

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
Patricia Clarkson

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.
Len Wein

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.
Leo Burnett

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
Yo-Yo Ma

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.
Norton Juster

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.
Erykah Badu