“Writing Cave means it's Coffee O'Clock...Who am I kidding? It's always Coffee O'Clock!” — Tammy-Louise Wilkins Copy Share Image
The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers. — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
“Depth is not something the writer puts into a book; it's something the reader takes out of it.” — Michael Carroll Copy Share Image
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy. — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me;… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
“On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?” — David Morrell Copy Share Image
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning,… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I guess I'm a really analytical person, but when I'm writing, all that stuff goes behind a screen. Analysis and taking things… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
