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Tag Name "Writers" (2304)

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writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.
Edna Ferber
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Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.
Doris Lessing
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Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.
Kirby Wright
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Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
Laurie Anderson
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul
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Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.
John Updike
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Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer to buffoons and jesters than we are to whistle-blowers or moral guides. Accepting our rather insignificant place in society can be depressing - but it's also freeing.
Valeria Luiselli
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
Larry Kramer
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Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.
Laura Miller
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Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.
John Lahr
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Edna Ferber
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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.
Agatha Christie
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Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.
Steven Pinker
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Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
Steven Pressfield
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Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.
Alan Lightman
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Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
Paulo Coelho
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
Aaron Sorkin
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Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
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Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
Susan Orlean
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Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.
Terry Gilliam
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Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.
Peter Carey
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