It's weird writing for a documentary because I have all these ideas for what I want to happen, but what actually happens… — Chris Cubas Copy Share Image
When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura… — Sonia Levitin Copy Share Image
It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that… — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
“[...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...]” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If I can quote myself, I explained whatever it is I'm doing once for No Tell Motel, and I still think it's… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about, and… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Anyway GONE. My goal in writing GONE To creep you out. To make you stay up all night reading then roll into… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
It's one of the things that weirdly I always used to like about my job: that expressing the emotions of a writer… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Some writers may hate interacting on social media. And if you do, don't do it, because it shows. If you are uncomfortable… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I wish my prose to be transparentI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee mugs in hand, we talk… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“My goal when writing is to engage the reader. Having my words play out like a movie - Rewarding. Having the reader… — Elizabeth Cook-Howard Copy Share Image
My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I’m not sure I’ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should’ve said. — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid.… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
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