When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes. The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I am sober, grounded, focused, I'm writing again, I like where I am. I'm real positive and I got this great family… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I feel like I've got so much to do, from a music perspective. Jamie's done his record and traveled around the world… — Oliver Sim Copy Share Image
Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“There's that thing that can happen to you when you meet somebody and you don't consider them extraordinary at all and then… — Yvonne Prinz Copy Share Image
I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
My advice is: to try and stay really true to the things that make YOU laugh, as opposed to trying to create… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for… — Camilo Jose Cela Copy Share Image
Heartbreak allows us to also experience joy and love but you have to walk through heartbreak to even know what joy is.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
While I was writing my book, I got a top police official in Bombay an invitation to study terrorism at the Rand… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
“It’s just so typical. I’ve had writer’s block for days now− I literally couldn’t write a coherent sentence− then about a minute… — Emily Harper Copy Share Image
Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I hereby certify that the bearer of this note, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the night in question at Satan's ball, having been lured… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did.… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“A mist rises from a nearby mound. It could be me, that mist, or simply the caretaker’s mower-dust. If the breeze blows… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was… — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a… — Jeff Pinkner Copy Share Image
“You think of travelers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it… — Frank Darabont Copy Share Image
My approach with social media is to interact with the readers I already have. I do it mostly to procrastinate from my… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“It is a delightful thing to write, to cease to be oneself, to flow through the whole creation of which one speaks.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Write naked. That means to write what you would never say. Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can’t… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
