Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what… — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost… — George Sand Copy Share Image
To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative. — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I should have asked for credit - but he has no idea how amazing it is that a character that was written… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The chaos in me is the chaos in you. Like the love in you is the love in me. So maybe we’re… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
We all just meet up and someone's house or the studio and we'll just jam and we'll lock into something that sounds… — Mitch Lucker Copy Share Image
I began seeing certain things happen in my life and other people's lives and getting inspired by it and writing about it.… — Joyner Lucas Copy Share Image
It's weird - I can listen to a guitar player or a rock record over and over again and really enjoy whatever… — Kevin Drumm Copy Share Image
I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
It's crazy to see people having tattooed my lyrics on their body, and quite frankly writing is just an outlet for my… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the… — Grandmaster Flash Copy Share Image
My approach to writing and recording now is pretty much the same as when I started. Except now I worry even less… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon...… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I know how to write stories that are accessible to younger readers, and sophisticated enough for older ones. I'm not a big… — Hope Larson Copy Share Image
“People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the job of the… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
It's not my job to critique the writing. I'm there to serve it. I had to figure out a way to make… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with… — Billie Eilish Copy Share Image
“You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
My wife gets mad because we'll be in the middle of something and I'll stop and say, 'No, I've got to write… — Henry Cho Copy Share Image
If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
It's great to be able to write songs and draw on life, to write truthfully, and to be able to do that,… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something,… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
