If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I do think you learn things about genre storytelling, but you also have to be careful not to learn too much. — David Eick Copy Share Image
And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about. — Jack Kent Cooke Copy Share Image
“Writers are made--forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities--over the course of many, many moons. The writer you… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child. — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
As a journalist - or as a writer - my obligation is to come as close to the truth as I possibly… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I think it's essential for writers to be involved in the recording process as things can often go wrong in this area.… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This is the plot up to the moment when the writer leaves the woman still dolefully enmeshed in it, and, suitcase in… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English;… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
“I write - poignantly, in the most heartfelt way - about how I miss her and how I detest my life in… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
As a storyteller, I realize that because of the inherent abstraction in rhythm, the possible interpretations are plenty. But that only makes… — Shobana Copy Share Image
I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say,… — Catherine Crier Copy Share Image
The thing you realize pretty quickly, though, is that being in front of an audience whose job it is to laugh is… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the… — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I don't like making things too complicated when writing songs. I want to write in a very easy language that many people… — Natalia Lafourcade Copy Share Image
If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
You don't want to write the same story again, but people are like 'We want the same story but different.' Well, how… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
I re-read a lot of my college writing while we were in rehearsals, and it was so strange. It was wonderful to… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I think it wasn't until I came out that I was like, 'OK, I'm ready to share my music now' because a… — G Flip Copy Share Image
Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
“Some of the stuff that I write really concerns me. If I'm not institutionalised by 30 I'll seriously question the judgement of… — Jack Tate Copy Share Image
My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative? — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
