#writers

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#characters #fiction #fiction writers #happens #into

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry. ↗

— Richard Russo

#dry #i #running #suppose #well

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media. ↗

— William Safire

#choir #erudition #longer #media #off

The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do. ↗

— Ted Shackelford

#long #out #run #runs #series

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#bad one #forget #good #remember #reviews

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#curiously #full #life #states #their

True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do, or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Some can breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhale and for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life. ↗

— Milissa R. Bailey

#breathing #dreams-inspirational #faith #family #inspirational

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#creation #declared #delusive #direct #distribution

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#different #many #much #read #soak

I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#american #bills #got #gotta #great