Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in… — Catie Curtis Copy Share Image
We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free… — Rickey Medlocke Copy Share Image
I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I guess its better then a suicide note? Once my father was joking and laughing about people who killed their selves. Dad… — Jade Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate enough to act in a TV show that makes me a lot of money so I can pay for my… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of… — Santha Rama Rau Copy Share Image
I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
“I've always found the Irish really attractive-they make wonderful writers and sexy firefighters, and if they didn't like the Red Socks they'd… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
“Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a character’s predicament, but never to solve his problems.” — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
I did go through a phase of reading a lot of poetry and getting heavily into philosophy and ended up writing things… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
As a writer, I find that a good way of evolving a character is through an examination of his or her defining… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty deep guy. I'm not a tough guy at all. People think I give this persona that I'm thick-skinned, but… — Thomas Grennan Copy Share Image
“Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.” — Linda Nelson Copy Share Image
If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
An extraordinary writer…It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness. — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
