Quotes About Writers

but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once-but no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

I have always been attracted to male writers who can demonstrate their love and affection for women with ease, yet not draw attention to themselves.

Generally, writers descend from a lesser tribe, and whatever claim to beauty we have shows up on the printed page far more often than it does in our mirrors. Even as I writer these words I think of dozens off writers, both male and female, who make a mockery of this generalization. But comeliness among writers is rare enough to be noteworthy.

But sometimes stories hide themselves from writers like trolls under bridges. Then the writers of the world must keep their bodies attuned for the sudden appearance of the story that is powerful enough to change their novels and their lives. They must train themselves to recognize the divine moment when a great story reveals itself.

I've spent most of my life avoiding the companionship of writers. I try never to be rude, just seldom available. Though I have met some of the great writers of our time, I've become good friends with very few of them. The tribe is contentious, the breed dangerous.

In matters of good-lookingness, we writers are the ugliest of the bunch, and normally our appearance is akin to that of someone investigating a crime scene; though the women in American writing keep producing world-class beauty in droves, and there are many breathtaking writers among them.

Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers.

The Gospel writers wanted to make of their hero nothing less than what was claimed of saviors of other religions: a king born of a virgin.

Writers were among my acquaintances but, as in all times, we tended to mistrust and badmouth each other, secretly resenting the others' successes and finding fault in their work. Each of us knew in his or her heart that he or she was a true artist of the word who merely happened to be commercial; the others were hacks.

Writers are people whose words speak louder than their actions.

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

The writers I know seem constitutionally unable to allow themselves to be discouraged by failure.

All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers' existence during the time the fiction was written.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

I don't generally publicly respond to reviews, no matter how wrong-headed or perspicacious I think them. Nine times out of ten, writers' responses to critics seem to me at best undignified.

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

Who knew Rob Lowe was funny? On 'Parks and Rec ' we've got some of the funniest comedy writers, some of the funniest comedians in the world working there. And if anything, we don't just effuse to one another and be like, 'Oh, Rob Lowe's really funny ' if he wasn't.

It was a common practice for news writers to make public proclamations as to what I was, or was not. It seemed to me that the selection of sex determination should lie with the individual in an effort to live freely, so long as it was to no one else's disadvantage.

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

People lose faith in their political institutions, which can't control the scale and rate of technological disruptions, blaming politicians for events that few fully understand and all have limited ability to influence. The role of thinkers and writers amid these whirlwind of disruptions is to provide context and meaning to these forces and reveal how they are shaping modern choices about life.