Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I just write by instinct and my screenplays are often the effort of a year-long penance on a subject. — Anoop Menon Copy Share Image
“To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.” — DiAnn Mills Copy Share Image
I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things about 'Castle' is the fact our writers and producers are so collaborative. They allow us to bring… — Jon Huertas Copy Share Image
I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for opportunities, even when they're not offered to me. I will have no hesitation to pick up the phone… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I would like to write my biography sometime. I love to write. I could write for weeks and weeks, maybe say nothing… — Guy Lafleur Copy Share Image
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I would like to do a lot more of it, I feel comfortable with it and basically it's all in the writing.… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we… — Quinn Norton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can listen to music - sometimes there's no choice, especially if I'm out writing at a coffee place. But sometimes… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and… — Don McLean Copy Share Image