I did The 'Acid Test' at the Royal Court, by Anya Reiss, who's the most wonderful, amazing female writer. She was only… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
“Reading at meal is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this… — Alain De Botton Copy Share Image
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
“Dryden was a highly prolific literary figure, a professional writer who was at the centre of all the greatest debates of his… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“It’s a choice, writing is. One that belongs to you and me. We get to choose it (or not) every single day.… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft… — Lennie James Copy Share Image
If you are angry, why not try this. Write a letter. Pour out all of your feelings, describe your anger and disappointment.… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
For many years I wrote nothing but "I will not sleep with Steve Almond" over and over again, page after page à… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I think I can work anywhere, but you don't get the same kind of inspiration everywhere. New York theater has become a… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“There were times, in the beginning, when I used my journal as a wailing wall, but I learned not to immortalize the… — Phyllis Theroux Copy Share Image
I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror… — Peter James Copy Share Image
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“. . .You are preparing to make it possible to live in the writer’s dream, by learning to market your writing skills,… — Terry Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“Because his art is such a difficult one, the writer is not likely to advance in the world as visibly as do… — john gardner Copy Share Image
Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write... ...writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You'd be the first to complain if people didn't write,' Judd rapped out. 'Here's your egg. Boiled for three minutes exactly. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Whether you are a good or bad writer is an irrelevancy when you first begin. What's important is that you write, you… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The special problem here is that the artistic medium of fiction writers—language—is not innately sensual. The medium is unforgiving whenever we look… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
