“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I don't believe in democracy. In the second place, neither did our white forefathers. I believe, as they did, in a republican… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
“(D)ialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. 'When you're writing lines...you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If someone writes something shitty and you actually address them, most of the time they're just like, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm a… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness,… — Richard Marx Copy Share Image
Relative to the power that movie stars have, and producers and directors, I would say that even the most respected screenwriters have… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
[Noah Hawley] just a fantastic writer. It's always about the script, it's always about the book; it always is. If it ain't… — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
“Propaganda is an important weapon of the fascist state. TV and the media are filled with clandestine agents, some posing as liberal… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to… — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There are times when we in Little Dragon write from scratch together, but everyone has their own lives, so it just seems… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think political situations usually work their way into my writing, but not necessarily in an explicit way. The environment is so… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I definitely use life experiences. For me, it's extremely hard to write about something I don't know anything about. If I've never… — Brianna Taylor Copy Share Image
The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
“Instead of telling our valuable stories, we seek safety in abstractions, speaking to each other about our opinions, ideas, and beliefs rather… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Oswald Chambers writes, ‘Never make a principle out of your experience; let God be as original with other people as He is… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion,… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I knew I was going to be able to write full time, I wondered, "What's going to happen to the relationships… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In sum, then a conservative tech writer offers a really attractive way of looking at viewer passivity and TV's institutionalization of irony,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The Strauss allowed me to be a writer. Without it, 'The Emperor's Children' would not exist. When I received the award, I… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities... Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
“In a recent survey, innovative people — from inventors to scientists, writers to programmers — were asked what techniques they used. Over… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
![“[Noah Hawley] just a fantastic writer. It's always about the script, it's always about the book; it always is. If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. That's what attracted me to him first and foremost.” quote by Lauren Shuler Donner](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/45b/lauren-shuler-donner-11057_book_noah-hawley-just-a-fantastic-writer-it-s_912574.jpg)
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