#writers

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it. ↗

— Patti Davis

#did #else #except #fascinating #happens

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#disappointment #german #group #hopelessness #i

Writers are always selling somebody out. ↗

— Joan Didion

#out #selling #somebody #writers

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. ↗

— Carl Van Doren

#first #long #long run #nowhere #rest

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#alive #come #happened #i #make

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. ↗

— William Gibson

#also #bad #description #dreamers #dreaming

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. ↗

— Erica Jong

#i #like #most #ones #rave

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide. ↗

— Larry King

#business #eyes #feel #good #guide

At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#because #bunch #committee #edited #everything

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#certain #consider #ever #finding #fortunate