#writers

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical. ↗

— Terry McMillan

#autobiographical #few #willing #writers #writing

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#admire #again #alice #ask #i

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#storyteller #writers

Great writers are the saints for the godless. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#great #saints #writers

The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before bed admired then forgotten. ↗

— Roman Payne

#authors #brides #desire #funny #humor

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#arrogant #creatures #early #god-like #i

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#about #dreamers #talk #write #writers

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#american film #american writers #directors #every #every time

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean. ↗

— Norton Juster

#had #i #i think #just #know