I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“For writers, writing is a great activity to engage your mind, body, and life. As, you know: taking on hobbies and activities… — Prince Akwarandu Copy Share Image
Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“Then he went into the dining room, consulting his watch. It was ten thirty already. More than half the morning was gone.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I have a comedy writer friend, Sandy, whose husband left her for another woman the moment his restaurant (which Sandy had invested… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“I know more about Emily Bronte than anyone I know. I know enough about her family to have been a part. I’ve… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
With Twitter and Instagram and all of these vehicles where fans can directly interact with you and get your attention, there's a… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I love music. I think music is a big inspiration; I listen to it a lot when I'm writing. I really love… — Quinn Shephard Copy Share Image
Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Many writers, including myself, have detailed how irresponsible government actions slow economic recoveries. Similar behavior by individuals impedes growth, too. If you… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. Baltasar Gracian (Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ (January 8, 1601 – December… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had some friends commenting me books, but mostly it was people I didn't know. But they're fans. They're fans of the… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase,… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it… — Adam Rickitt Copy Share Image
I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love… — Morris West Copy Share Image
“To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without… — Jennifer Salaiz Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals -… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I think anyone who has had a fight and who's a very good observer of the situation and people's behavior is capable… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
“Huddled in her mink in the Kansas City airport, she had a vision of women writing about sex as openly as male… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
My days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, I get to visit schools around the country and… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
I made a note in my head to be aware of things as they were happening, because they might not happen again.… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I had been used to improvising and even in the audition I was feeling free to rearrange Aaron Sorkin words a little… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities.… — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I made films with my brothers and my cousins and if any of the films ever come to fruition my career will… — Henry Lloyd-Hughes Copy Share Image
