I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I feel like anytime you write about people in an honest way, you can find connections to any issue you would like. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
“Seinfeld told his writers that nine was his lucky number, so he just had to go out with his ninth season.” — Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, so I don't know what that looks like, but I can only imagine that you get all those… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
“I'm certified as an instructor and I do teach courses at a cram school, but I'm not exactly a teacher. I write… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's a little scary when you - I got - I just got a box to my house for my birthday from… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Something that you learn in film school is write what you know. I used to take that really literally. Like, I'd be… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
“It is to be hoped the time will come, thank God, in some circles it already has, when language is best used… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“I said earlier that we are all poets, though not many of us write poetry; and so are we all novelists, that… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there. — Craig David Copy Share Image
Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us? — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
My approach to writing is, it's either going to be a personal story about me and what I've personally been through, or… — Giveon Copy Share Image
My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men. — William Soutar Copy Share Image
The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows why another Latin American writer, Mario Llosa Vargas, one day punched Marquez in the face.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a… — Warren Adler Copy Share Image
Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring… — Karen Hines Copy Share Image
Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
We write the songs that we do because that's what we like. But they are just stories - not things we actually… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
Talent is a combination of perfect comic timing, diction, modulation, great script writing and most importantly, an invincible will, if you may… — Brahmanandam Copy Share Image
“Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Everyone says TV's going down the tubes, and it's all reality, but there's some really good writing and some amazing opportunities if… — Lindsay Price Copy Share Image
I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image