There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I think my interviews were much better than what some of the writers wrote. I just wanted the truth out. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with… — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult.… — Han Nolan Copy Share Image
“ When I started writing Forest Life, I was suicidal and drunk because I had lost someone I love to a tragedy.… — Shane Crash Copy Share Image
I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
I wrote the poems in Charms Against Lightning one by one, over almost a decade, and I did not write them toward… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end I'll go to a… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I have come from France more firmly convinced than ever that Negros should write Negro music. We have our own racial feeling… — James Reese Europe Copy Share Image
“Your writings can help people in need; motivate the tired, uplift the depressed, and give direction to the lost. The ultimate aim… — Johnson C. Philip Copy Share Image
I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
A lot of writers will take a character at the beginning of a story. And that character will stay the same all… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in… — Maya Rudolph Copy Share Image
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“She thinks it was Margaret Atwood who said that wanting to meet a writer because you like their work was like wanting… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Whenever you write script without a director, you put in things that point toward a style in which the story will be… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.” — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
During the writer's strike I was walking a line and ran into Jack Black and he said,'We're doing Airborne 2!', and I… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
The Internet makes writing about restaurants easier and more interesting in quite a few ways, one of the main ones being to… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
