#writers

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#countries #give #hope #instability #intellectuals

Writers are not meant for action. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#meant #writers

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#i #retire #will #writer #writers

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#desire #desperate #hostility #i #i can

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#enough #get #going #inspired #just

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

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. ↗

— John Metcalf

#honest #keep #themselves #writers

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #collaborative #full #i #i always

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#doing #done #good #i #know

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#because #become #being #children #dangerous