The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
Cyril Connolly

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

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
Nick Cave

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
David Wilkerson

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

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

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
Russell Banks

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
Tobias Wolff

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

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
Margaret Mahy

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.
Len Deighton

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
J. M. Coetzee

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
Bill Walsh