Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What is writing? It’s me, the author, taking the state inside my mind and, via the gift of language, grafting it onto… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The caress of each word becoming one with the page. Twisting beneath the touch of the pen, forming a trail of permanent… — N'Zuri Za Austin Copy Share Image
When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to… — Cecily Strong Copy Share Image
I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as… — Tom Ellis Copy Share Image
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on… — Liane Balaban Copy Share Image
The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away,… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I believe the better I can write on my own, the better I can be of service in a co-write. The big… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
One of the things I liked about writing for a magazine was a kind of anonymity. When you do books, it's different… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life...and promise.” — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing. — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
“The biblical writings have an inherent authority as works uniquely inspired by God. Canonization is the process of recognizing that inherent authority,… — Robert L. Plummer Copy Share Image
“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that… — Barry Lane Copy Share Image
A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement.… — Paul Muni Copy Share Image
Marriagea book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don't write to be seen, I write so the world can see. I don't write to be heard, I write so… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ. — John Berridge Copy Share Image
the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies,… — Travis Tritt Copy Share Image
Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
