Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
“We haven’t done much writing code, but we are reading and understanding code, and that can be just as good. So” — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
A written word gets preserved in so many forms. But movies which comprise of both audio and visuals have to be done… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it.… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?" — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my… — Natalie Morales Copy Share Image
Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up in the '80s, the BBC showed those old Buster Crabbe serials like Flash Gordon and… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I am not a performing seal. In your writing, you are tapping into the part that is 'the best' in you. But… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Why are non-disabled people writing about disability without consultation? When that happens, the end result... you might get it right once, but… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one… — Ben Clymer Copy Share Image
There are books that a writer undertakes because she wants to go on a journey, and there are journeys a writer undertakes… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
“It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say. — Kate Greenaway Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a screenplay writer or a photographer. First question people asked me: 'Who do… — Shenaz Treasury Copy Share Image
“Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.” — Jonathan Heatt Copy Share Image
I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I'm journalling, checking in with myself. I write about the week and how it felt, my hopes and plans. I do it… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen. — David Frum Copy Share Image
I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences,… — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I was just ready to make a movie for the girls. It was just really fun to write for a girl. It… — Jerusha Hess Copy Share Image
In some ways, the more that I write songs, the more I feel that telling a story is the most important thing;… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
