I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday,… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there. — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
Write like you write, like you can't help but write, and your voice will become yours and yours alone. It'll take time… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
A lot of people will tell you the first step to starting something new is to have an idea. But to me… — Linda Rottenberg Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“so thanks for supplying all the inspiration.” “But think of everything you came up with all on your own,” she said. “You… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“I was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.” — Magus Tor Copy Share Image
Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value?… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
As the writer, I may choose to ignore the emotional heart of the matter, and focus on details, and trust that the… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.” — Kevis Hendrickson Copy Share Image
One of the most fun things for me, as a writer, is when readers ask questions like, 'Oh, I noticed that you… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of writing for other people, other projects, and what I tried to do with the music I'm putting… — Teddy Geiger Copy Share Image
I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That's when I understood human beings have… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers are generally anonymous. It just that I think I got out there because I also act as well and put myself… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
With 'Deep Space Nine,' I learned that when you get a script, you should give honor to the writer. On 'Larry Sanders,'… — Penny Johnson Jerald Copy Share Image
I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I… — Lee Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
“How can I shake and dispel the awful reputation of being an "erudite" writer? I’m about as erudite as a traffic cop.… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I don't get a lot of writer's block, because it's all based on research. I just start looking through my notes, and… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“...what really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude: the attitude of your prose toward out elusive friend the Reader and… — Stephen Koch Copy Share Image
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
