When I was in high school, I used to beg my teachers to let me create films and plays instead of writing… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the… — Trevor Moore Copy Share Image
I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writers like to imagine that the difficulty of becoming a writer resides in convincing others that that is what you are.… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the… — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
I think it gets really dangerous, though, to do it on the show. I think that the writers and producers are very… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The more you read, the better you are at writing, no matter what you're writing. A lot of songwriters miss that and… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
People don't understand the tyranny of media. The few women that the media will allow in have to think about male approval… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
My hands are already full writing and directing, because that's a full time job. Actually, that's why I don't produce as well,… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The number-one rule of writing is write what you know--or something like that. So I wrote about my experiences. — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead… — George Noory Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or… — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response… — John Green Copy Share Image
The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
