Quotes with writers

  • My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.
  • Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
  • Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
  • Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
  • There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these.
  • I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at.
  • Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
  • Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
  • American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
  • I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bob Mayer Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead 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 N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Junot Diaz I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'
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    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Patrick Kavanagh A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Bill Gross Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Carson Mccullers All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
    Carson Mccullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Dorothy Parker All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • George Orwell All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Audre Lorde All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Caroline Leavitt All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Ernest Hemingway All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Tatyana Tolstaya Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
    Tatyana Tolstaya
     
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  • Martin Amis America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Bryan Burrough American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Billy Joel 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
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Billy Joel Artists - 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
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Carl Van Vechten As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith 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
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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