I've always been humble and this even humbled me even more to definitely get a second chance at my career. There are… — Darrelle Revis Copy Share Image
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Foreign Soil is dedicated to Australian fiction writers of colour: those who paved the path before me, and those for whom these… — Maxine Beneba Clarke Copy Share Image
I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm capable of writing without caffeine. And most of the time, that caffeine comes from iced tea. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day,… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if… — Tim Maleeny Copy Share Image
For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available. — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier. — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I don't have a readership, I have a thinkership. I guess this is why what I do is called "conceptual writing." The… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does. — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. I like when… — Halsey Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've… — Kelly Reilly Copy Share Image
It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied… — Frederick Locker-Lampson Copy Share Image
I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
According to me, when a filmmaker is writing a role, a certain actor comes to his mind. Now whether that actor resides… — Sayaji Shinde Copy Share Image
To me hip-hop is a culture and I became an MC to be recognized as a dope lyricist. That's what I wanted… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
