A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
I jog in the morning and then write for about two hours. There are times when I'm really excited and can't wait… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
More and more, I play myself, as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from… — Jim Piddock Copy Share Image
The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy -… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
I'd like to write about whatever is going on with me at that point of time or situations I'm - which I'm… — William Singe Copy Share Image
You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all,… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I try not to cover Sudan from afar. I feel really uncomfortable writing about Sudan when I'm not there. It always looks… — Rebecca Hamilton Copy Share Image
All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is… — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I could see why someone would want to make a website about me, and my quotes. They are all gold. How many… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic… — Melora Hardin Copy Share Image
“Maybe every author needs to keep faith with Nabokov, and every reader with Barthes. For how can you write, believing in Barthes?… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Dostoevsky was writing about losers. The main character of The Iliad, Hector, is a loser. It’s very boring to talk about winners.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Christian writers, whether they like it or not, do not simply write for themselves; for good or ill, readers will see their… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
I'm very happy where I am, with the comradery with the incredible actors, producers and writers [of The Strain]. I am ready… — Richard Sammel Copy Share Image
“Another aspect of yoga has to do with our actions. Yoga therefore also means acting in such a way that all of… — T.K.V. Desikachar Copy Share Image
Smart writers really take their time in investing in backstories and characters. As a viewer, you have to invest in them and… — Liza Weil Copy Share Image
In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“When I write something I usually think it is very important and that I am a very fine writer. I think this… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
I think where a writer falls on the realism/non-realism continuum has a lot to do with their sight, as in, 'This is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
From American Idol to The Matrix participatory media - where old and new media converge by involving fans - is influencing our… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every word. I… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
But the Fear (that sensation that all writers get of how the hell do words get from my puny little brain to… — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image