I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women. — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
“I write because I have to write; but I also write because there’s somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.” — Harley King Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I was never really satisfied with writing only text or with the way my texts looked when they were published. Most online… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
“But perhaps one day I will be entrusted with daughters of my own, and if so, I swear I will not see… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Loads of weirdos send me things, like strange bits of leather. And then there was the guy who thought I was having… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time.… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“That was how she saw the storyteller for the last time - in an absolutely silent world, in a staircase. He'd hit… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
“The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
What I think is important about essayists, about the essay as opposed to a lot of personal writing is that the material… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
“My best advice for aspiring writers is to read a lot and write. Don't worry if you don't get your first, fifth… — Katie Fforde Copy Share Image
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to… — Lauren Miller Copy Share Image
It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want… — Wes Borland Copy Share Image
I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening.… — Enya Copy Share Image
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
“No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and… — Morley Callaghan Copy Share Image
I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
I feel that performing is its own art form, and recording is its own art form, and writing is its own art… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
You can never predict success. You can never predict another person liking what you are doing. But if you are an interesting… — Sudha Kongara Copy Share Image
Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.” — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Brian Wilson's writing and production techniques were landmarks and 'God Only Knows' has to be one of my top 10 recordings. — David Essex Copy Share Image
I used to say when I was younger, 'I'm exhausted; writers can only write for four hours a day and that's done.'… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Every single time I perform 'River,' I just feel a huge rush of adrenaline and energy, and I remember writing it. — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
“Writer and former Border Patrol officer Francisco Cantú has written poignantly about these death maps and all the “clearly marked ghosts” that… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
“In my opinion the best writer of historical novels. He makes you feel, smell, see every thing he describes in all his… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
