To be honest with you, I dont male-bash. I dont believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen… — Cherrelle Copy Share Image
That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
There are a lot of women - directors, producers, writers - involved in my career. They are all interested in telling good… — Nicola Walker Copy Share Image
I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
It's not so much less pressure, it's less work, which is really exciting to me. I'm just personally looking forward to being… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“I'd been writing for as long as I could remember, but once I read Otherworld, I'd stopped writing original stories to focus… — Allison van Diepen Copy Share Image
“...for example, if Freud is wrong, as i and many others believe, where does that leave any number of novels and virtually… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
“If you are a writer and you write/understand sarcasm please be thankful to the government and the masses. Without their hard work… — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think every man wants to be a writer. They want to invent a world with the perfect imaginary woman, someone… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we… — Tommy Rettig Copy Share Image
Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with… — Vangelis Copy Share Image
“...writing stories was always a bit like falling in love with a stranger and running off to Marrakech for a long weekend.… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person.… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Inspiring girls to write their stories and play their own instruments is something I'm passionate about, as it's not championed. — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'll just say random stuff that doesn't make sense, and then a certain word that I keep saying will… — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want… — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
“Our reality may be fabled, but surely will be fleeting, because when the storyteller looks away, the story collapses. In the end,… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“What the semicolon’s anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“An editor asked me what led me to write erotica. I replied, "A dirty mind, excess words, and an overactive sacral chakra.” — Fierce Dolan Copy Share Image
I have to be honest about this: I wouldn't tell a lot of kids to go and be writers. It's a tough,… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places. — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing. — Anne-Marie Copy Share Image
To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“Vātsyāyana’s famous textbook of erotics, the Kāma-sūtra, lists secret writing as one of the 64 arts, or yogas, that women should know… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
