If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Set a goal, write it down, and release the outcome. Small steps make a big difference. — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it. — Earl King Copy Share Image
I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well. — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time. — John Cariani Copy Share Image
I get up to write while it's still dark, 5 or 5:30. I start by editing and rewriting everything I did the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing.… — Rosemary Daniell Copy Share Image
It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how… — Arthur M. Jolly Copy Share Image
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably… — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I've always been a quitter. I quit the Boy Scouts, the glee club, the marching band. Gave up my paper route, turned… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
I'm a very emotional writer. I always need to have a boyfriend. I always need to have some food. I always need… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Whether you believe it or not, you have to understand the politics. In every script, there is a political bend that the… — Abhishek Banerjee Copy Share Image
Knowing about authors' beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you've… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot.… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
