I don't see a lot of narratives written where a woman who looks like me gets to be beautiful and sexualized and… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I know I've done good work. I've been very serious about my writing, and I've done the best that I could. But… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
As a writer, every time I create a character, I try to go for something to captivate the audience in some way.… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
I have read H.P. Lovecraft, and I understand why he has influenced so much of horror writing. But because of his history,… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I don't like to be challenged in the way that often happens, where somebody writes something and then you, as an actor,… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
“The writer, Katherine Anne Porter, comments in her Notebooks that “[o]ne of the most disturbing habits of the human mind is its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Other people have suggested that I write about teens because I'm perpetually stuck in that stage of my own development. That could… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
“Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something--a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites… — Nadine C. Keels Copy Share Image
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The deep-feeling poet is he who, while doing his works, abandons the body, gets inspired by the words of the heart and… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I… — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
If the atmosphere is to be foreboding, you must forebode on every page. If it is to be cold, you must chill,… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
I had the Forrest Gump' DVD and started watching. While watching it, I had no intention of writing it. When I started… — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We have so many talented writers. Companies need to understand that smaller writers also need to be supported. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“As I worked to rebuild the ghost town I had made, I felt keenly that my failure to help Timothy was really… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Even the wolf gets anxious, but the wolf keeps moving and doing, all while being washed in the magic of moonlight” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I could not be more thrilled to be writing about the recipes I love and think are essential to any novice home… — Antoni Porowski Copy Share Image
“Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.” — Drew Goodman Copy Share Image
A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut… — Rudy Wiebe Copy Share Image
I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the… — Yvette Mimieux Copy Share Image
Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line. — Al Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine. — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image