Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency. — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour. — John Braine Copy Share Image
Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means. — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
“I want my online content to be so good that Google’s web crawler stops and says “Dayyyum son!” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The dull people don't write interesting books. But they sure as hell can write them thick and fast.” — Abram Gitspof Copy Share Image
You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft,… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think. — Stephen Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there -… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
“To devise situation where the protagonist is force to tell a lie, a useful figure for the writer is the Devil. Like… — David Mura Copy Share Image
I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
