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• Writers are much more esteemed in Russia, they play a much larger part in society than they do in the West. The advantage of not being free is that people listen to you.

  C. P. Snow

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• Writers are extremely awesome entertainers.

  Vianka Van Bokkem

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• Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.

  Julius Schwartz

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• All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

  Julius Wellhausen

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• It’s what every writer needs: a daybed.

  Vince Flynn

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• Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.

  Ruta Sepetys

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• Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

  Judith Rossner

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• Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

  Jennifer Donnelly

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• Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

  Lorrie Moore

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• My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

  Pierre Berton

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• It’s the writers’ job to make it positive. It’s my job to make it real.

  Lee Pace

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• Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.

  Anthony Marais

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• When a country is strong… it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

  Michel Houellebecq

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• Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.

  Anthony Horowitz

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• Yeah, writers do hate writing.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

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• American violence is public life, it’s a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

  Chester Himes

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• I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that’s all. That’s the best I can do.

  Oscar Hijuelos

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• In the present time you don’t really establish what you’re going through, but after time it’s declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we’re not aware of. This could be the ‘in-between the notes generation.’

  Garrett Hedlund

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• Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

  Robert Harris

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• Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don’t get it. I don’t get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I’m doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn’t think you ever had.

  Barry Hannah

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