You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you… — Peter Jacobson Copy Share Image
I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan - this is a personal preference - I'm not a fan of tour-de-force writing. I admire it, but… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records. — David Bryan Copy Share Image
I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
When I finally got my break in TV, as a staff writer, I always wanted to be at the top of that… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
Well, my father Kingsley Amis was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Write. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Don’t write it right, just write it -and then make it right later. Give… — Tara Moss Copy Share Image
You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked by somebody if writing… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
“I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little writing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“A writer's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one word, one sentence, one phrase at… — C.J. Heck Copy Share Image
There's certainly enough writers and directors and actors who secretly aspire to make movies and films that agree with the center-right perspective,… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws.… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.” — Brandon Gene Petit Copy Share Image
I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
That's what fascinates me about these writers' retreats: You're in these small spaces with small groups of people, and all of the… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel… — Heather Graham Pozzessere Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way. — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
