My daughter was five when I was writing 'Minari,' very much close to the age of David. And I was about to… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I can only develop a stand-up show by being on stage. I can't write it. Whenever I see comedy written down, it… — John Bishop Copy Share Image
There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life. — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
“When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It's as simple as finding something on the street and then writing a jingle. If I'm driving and I have my turn… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know,… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
They're the soothsayers, all these sci-fi short-story writers. They have totally predicted our civilization and what the future is, and it's nice… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh,… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a creature of the alt-weekly universe - my real education into higher culture was acquired in coffee shops, reading… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to have many teachers who encouraged me - one of the first was Dianne Derrick, my 5th grade teacher… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was… — Gemma Arterton Copy Share Image
I think you can tell stories and give perspectives and yet still keep stuff for yourself, too. I keep a lot of… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.” — P.S. Bartlett Copy Share Image
I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
You work for a record deal, and you work for writing a record, and you mix and master the record and put… — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“I write for the still-fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“As the literary critic and writer Leon Wieseltier remarks, “every technology is used before it is completely understood.” — Michael P. Lynch Copy Share Image
Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where… — Margaret Chittenden Copy Share Image
If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I felt that no self-help book had been written for millennials yet, so my ultimate goal was to write it. — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
