Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy. — Arthur Evans Copy Share Image
I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Every story holds insight into the writer's soul. If the soul can't be found, the writer didn't bleed enough.” — M.L. Stephens Copy Share Image
“No serious writer would claim that the reign of Western civilization was unblemished. Yet there are those who would insist that there… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
In 2011, I contributed an essay to Tin House, 'The Dark Side of Dinner Dishes, Laundry, and Child Care,' talking about women… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
"National Anthem" was just a funny idea I'd been knocking about. I initially thought about a beloved celebrity having to do that… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
If you look back throughout the history of Broadway, there's always been periods where writers and producers have delivered the kind of… — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
Right now I think I'm the smartest I've ever been. I'm doing everything great now and everything perfect. Like with this taxes… — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The golden rule would be to write a great, authentic song that is well produced and it will find its home. The… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
I like writing with people. I think the times that I've closed myself off to not writing with people, I haven't gotten… — Noah Cyrus Copy Share Image
“You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point. — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few… — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all… — Christina Perri Copy Share Image
If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end… — Sarah Barthel Copy Share Image
I hope and pray that I'll be one of those fortunate people who have many, many books to write. I don't begrudge… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal -… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
We joke a lot about how, in Hollywood, the writer is one step below the doormat. That's not self-loathing. That's true! — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
“When I started writing every day, I realized a painful truth: I can’t react and create at the same time. Neither can… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is.… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
“You've seen yourself how difficult the writing is to decipher with your eyes, but our man deciphers it with his wounds.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I began writing a biography of Shakespeare, and since then I've written a number of biographies of… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how… — Bjork Copy Share Image
You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I… — Blackie Copy Share Image
I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression -… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything… — William Bell Copy Share Image
[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
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