Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what… — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
“A writer will seal his own coffin, And the interests of readers will soften, If the author insists On the usual twists,… — Mark Grenier Copy Share Image
Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“Writers,” Esther said simply. “For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I'm an indulgent writer - I'm not sure, however, that's something I'm interested in changing. Writing should be indulgent: you should take… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.” — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life… — Charles Beaumont Copy Share Image
“He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration… — Barbara Klein Moss Copy Share Image
There will be birds and if they write your name in the sky then you can get on the buses and if… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into… — Mark Linkous Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong: I love the great times I had with Static-X, but sometimes the writing/recording process was frustrating for me. — Wayne Static Copy Share Image
You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you. — Jonathan Kent Copy Share Image
If you can't be a pencil to write anyone's happiness, then at least try to be a nice eraser to erase someone's… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to… — Hristo Stoichkov Copy Share Image
I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire… — Mike White Copy Share Image
“One alphabet at a time, you can write an encyclopaedia. One word at a time, you can publish an entire library.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain… — Erle Stanley Gardner Copy Share Image
I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I've become a writer, an actor, producing films, and having a TV show. I'm pretty successful and proud of it. — Charlie Murphy Copy Share Image
Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
