I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his… — Norman Lindsay Copy Share Image
The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want… — Daphne Oz Copy Share Image
I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter,… — Lari White Copy Share Image
They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“If a writer manages to be fascinating about his own novels, then there are only two possibilities: either he is merely voicing… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that they put advertisements in with your bills now? Like bills aren't distasteful enough, they have to stuff junk… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I first moved to New York, like many twenty-somethings before me, to be a grown up. I was attending an MFA program… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As cliche as that sounds, Maya Angelou is one of the best writers I've ever read. She's very wise and to the… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours.… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“In the darkest corners of a writer’s heart, you’ll find the stories that never made it to the page, the ones too… — Dr. Nitin Chopra Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art… — Aden Young Copy Share Image
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight. — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
I'm writing, I'm directing, I'm editing, I'm mixing, I'm showrunning. There is a certain point where it's like, the work is the… — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the… — John Kapelos Copy Share Image
“Nordic writers to include social critiques in their fiction. It was one of the qualities I had admired since first reading Sjöwall” — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents… — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs… — Cheyenne Kimball Copy Share Image
“Because that’s what a book is: a letter from a writer to a reader. It’s connection. Something that reaches across the divides… — Chris Harrison Copy Share Image
I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating.… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
![“[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If…” quote by William Monahan](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c3a/william-monahan-3226_ambitious_eugene-o-neill-made-a-living-certainly-a_1474343.jpg)
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