I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their own feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“I realized Jack [Kerouac] was deeply committed to writing. Kesey was just as deeply committed to living and experiencing the lives of… — Sterling Lord Copy Share Image
I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I like to write about things that fascinate me because I believe that they will also fascinate my readers as well. — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the… — Ansen Dibell Copy Share Image
That went on for a long time: telling various tales from my experience being anorexic and bulimic, and having people say, 'You've… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a… — Eppu Nuotio Copy Share Image
Where my dad taught me everything about writing, Graham Paterson, who gave me my first job at The Times, taught me everything… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this writing, the… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,'… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“[T]he best historians...take a thorough knowledge of the evidence of their subject and combine it with a sharp intellect, the warmest understanding… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I do like writing. When I was a little kid, I used to love writing funny, silly stories - and my mom… — Laurie Hernandez Copy Share Image
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become… — James Welch Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic absorption, the huge disparity between… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Don't write for the market or for others. Write what you know, love and above all, write what you would love to… — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
If you write your best, even if you have to throw it out later, it's not wasted effort. You're getting better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He… — Shakira Copy Share Image
I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don't start writing no letters. I'm just kidding.… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
The day an actor is not required, the day no one is writing for you, is when you're actually dead... That's a… — Sudeep Copy Share Image
I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've always looked very closely at people, and seen a lot; that was true even when I was a kid. That's what… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image