You cant write about stuff you dont know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make… — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere,… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
You live and die two or three times making a movie. First, you write it, and the first pivotal moment comes when… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“I've never heard a writer feel that way about a device with a screen. Oh sure, they're functional, practical. We would be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I could be inspired by something I see or something I hear and write down or send to a friend or a… — Hailee Steinfeld Copy Share Image
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Though often scoffed at by “serious” writers, science fiction worms its way into our cultural psyche in interesting ways, and not just… — Frank Daniels III Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I spend of lot time thinking. It actually looks like I'm doing nothing, but... hanging out with clever… — Al Murray Copy Share Image
On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
It's not just Porter Ranch. There's communities like Chatsworth. There's communities like Northridge. There's communities like Granada Hills - and a lot… — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
If I had to write down everything I've done in my entire life, I'll begin with writing all my sorrows in sand… — Chee Vai Tang Copy Share Image
After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
I'm the only actor in the family. My little brother does Parkour. My sister married a writer, so I think that's what… — Mikey Madison Copy Share Image
Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say… — Ernest Borgnine Copy Share Image
I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
I hate the star part of the business. I like the singing, and writing and all that goes with it. But I… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
I read an interview with Aaron Sorkin and he said he plays every part when he's writing. I thought, "Oh, I do… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
We read everything - from the Unabomber to Camille Paglia to Martin Luther King Jr. - and I really fell in love… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“The banal advice of writ in teachers is "write what you know," but the truth is, you don't know a place until… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't… — John Prine Copy Share Image
When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
I cannot go on… All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
