“There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.” — Carol Morgan Copy Share Image
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family. — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
I’m going to trust this, I’m going to follow my path and my passion and I’m going to write from my heart... — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old. — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his… — Noah Lukeman Copy Share Image
I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the… — Achmat Dangor Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people don't take you seriously if they hear it's a video-game-based movie, and a lot of press… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
I always write knowing that people will hear it, but also hoping they'll see it. So a lot of times I make… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Every once and a while somebody writes a script, but even regardless of what age you are, most of the actors would… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in… — Joe Locke Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams] — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
I pay tax, and I pay federal tax, too. But I have a write-off, a lot of it's depreciation, which is a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too.… — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.” — Robert Kroetsch Copy Share Image
I'd worked on music docs for years. It felt like writing a novel. By the time I got to Keith Richards, it… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger. — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
That has been my outlet and a way to provide for my child - writing songs for myself and for other artists. — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
“We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image