“Writer platform is comparable to the listenership of a specific radio station or the viewership of a particular television program.” — Shawna Morey Copy Share Image
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves. — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review.… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“and what appears to be every graphic memoir ever written – Jeffrey Brown, Craig Thompson, Alison Bechdel, James Kochalka, Lucy Knisley, and… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff - whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
When we are artists, researchers, or writers, we choose what we do with our time, who we talk to. Of course we… — Paola Pivi Copy Share Image
I used to give her [my wife] to read the column every week before I sent it to the editors. And sometimes… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down.… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The best piece of advice I ever received about being a writer came from my brother Lee. I was just starting out… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women…why should it be considered a compliment to… — Elizabeth Wordsworth Copy Share Image
That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping… — Monika Pardon Copy Share Image
I write non-fiction quicker, and I write it on a computer. Fiction I write longhand, and that helps make it clear that… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“I have so many people in my head, I can't keep up with the real people around me. But it's okay, I'm… — Shannon Taylor Vannatter Copy Share Image
Dn't compare with your love story with that of a movie because they are written by script writers...Your love story is written… — Shubham Joshi Copy Share Image
I like to write for actors I know and with whom I've worked before. You can write to their strengths and weaknesses… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The image is an example of how horror writers view our world. A view that is far from the norm. Their writing… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last. — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Food becomes very secondary when you're trying to write songs, funnily enough. I think a good snack and a good tea break… — Griff Copy Share Image
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
“Monks and writers lead very similar lives. We spend our best time in retreat from the world, anxious to make something of… — Rougeau a Benedictine Monk Copy Share Image
“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
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