Pastoral Resources

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at.

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.