Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

- Anna Deavere Smith

I said that I like to write on trains and that I wished Amtrak had residencies for writers.

- Alexander Chee

The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion.

- Adoniram Judson

For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.

- Adam Mansbach

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

- A. S. Byatt

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

- Anthony Browne

Nicholas Sparks and John Green are very different writers.

- Ansel Elgort

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

- Anne Rice

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

- Anne Rice

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

- Anna Freud

If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.

- Aaron Sorkin

I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.

- Ann Leckie

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

- Amy Adams

My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.

- Alan Furst

Writers are so important.

- Adam Driver

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

- Anthony Bourdain

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

- Andy Rooney

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

- Amy Tan

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

- Alice Walker

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

- Aldous Huxley