If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV. — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
My parents completely supported mine and my brother's career choices - I'm an actor, he's a writer. — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Angeline M. Bishop Copy Share Image
“Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Behold the onset of my flinty tone. Along with so much else, a soft-tissue sarcoma can apparently drain the exultation from one's… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have… — Moliere Copy Share Image
A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind;… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
My favorite thing to do is rip the covers off a script when reading for writers to hire and make everybody read… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Go back and take a look at what some black writers were saying in the 1820s, the 1830s. They make mention of… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
“It was wintertime. I was starving to death trying to be a writer in New York. I hadn't eaten for three or… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
“when you educate yourself about clitoredectomies, infibulation, forced prostitution, rape as a war tactic, patriarchal religions, women painters, filmmakers, poets, writers, activists,… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
