I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical,… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother… — Isabel Colegate Copy Share Image
While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I don't think you can separate a person's "style" and his persona. If you're writing or improvising honestly, you will inevitably reflect… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The point I'm trying to make is that by recording my progress every day, I had the data I needed to start… — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something.… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as… — Olivia Holt Copy Share Image
All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
“To judge from their writings, there are certain ladies who think that an amazing ignorance, both of science and of life, is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I believe in the writer's mission. He receives it from the word, which carries its suffering and its hope within it. He… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
“What are they like, writers, in your mind: it may seem strange, but initially it’s not about writing. A writer is someone… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals, freelance writers, investigative journalists, and midlist novelists are the analog to the family farmers, who have always struggled but simply can’t… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for… — Alex Karpovsky Copy Share Image
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
It's a tradition that a writer will try to plant his flag in a certain city and protect that. The way to… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I am not a trained writer and I don't think anyone would accuse me of being a funny person. But I feel… — Vantile Whitfield Copy Share Image
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
For me, whatever you write about should be worthy of your attention, worthy of your gifts. That's very important. — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
As an online journalist, newswire journalist, newspaper writer, I wrote every day. My whole thing was, 'I have to write and report… — Om Malik Copy Share Image
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about falling in love and why it can't last but that the same time how it lasts forever... — Dawsons Creek Copy Share Image
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
