Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Walter Benjamin

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
Kathy Acker

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
Beverly Cleary

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

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
Eudora Welty

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
John Gould

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

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
Paul Harris

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

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

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
Alton Brown

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Edward Albee

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Orson Scott Card

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Orson Scott Card

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card

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

Writers are not meant for action.
Manuel Puig

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.
Eric Morecambe

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