Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire
Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.
Alice Walker
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
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
Bill Walsh
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barbara Walters
Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
Rachel Ward
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
James D. Watson
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
Jennifer Weiner
My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as... →
James Welch