If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a… — Betty White Copy Share Image
Dear Complete and Utter Stranger, The first thing that I have to say is that I hate oatmeal. I really hate it.… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just,… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's'… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound.… — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I firmly believe in and support everyone's right to freedom of artistic expression. STEEL MAGNOLIAS is my artistic expression, and it is… — Robert Harling Copy Share Image
When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“I see the creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing..and you will find all manner… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I was like just writing and writing and then I kinda developed my sound. And then, my managers were like, "Okay, we're… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
“There's nothing wrong with this. Other than sentimentality, the typewriter offers nothing special to the act of writing. What an author uses… — Todd Michael Cox Copy Share Image
Don't be too concerned about the wingnut ears. Anxiety produces the wrong pheromones. Roll with the punches. Make time for life around… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I was walking around in an almost blind, crazy rage of madness. There was a story burning a hole in my brain,… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If the government doesn't fund education, which they often don't, students are going to stay home and not go to school. It… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I strive to use references that may still make some kind of sense once our age has passed into history. That robs… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Value the quality of your articles over the number of articles you write. I know a lot of bloggers focus on writing… — Jeet Banerjee Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I'll just talk and talk for an hour, an hour and half, until funny things come out of my mouth - often… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration.… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
