“You don't have to have the most exciting life to write. If you have a story to tell, tell it; or better… — J.Y. Barris Copy Share Image
All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
One thing I'm super aware of in my music when I'm writing is: 'Am I overcomplicating this?' I'll write a song about… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you're writing in the mainstream... Whatever that is - the norm. The norm is likely going to be funded because you're… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
I don't think I would ever write a book with what anybody could call pornography in it, because I feel that pornography… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Often what happens with the writing is that you know where you want to start and you know where you want to… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Frances Wright was a writer, founder of a utopian community, immigrant from Scotland in 1824, a fighter for the emancipation of slaves,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“A Book I Can Put Down I’m halfway through and I’ve gotten used to the way it wants to be read. This… — Antonia Clark Copy Share Image
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“I was asked: You write some intimate scenes in your stories on You Me & Stories but they are not explicit. Why… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad… — Pat Forde Copy Share Image
“will wear you out in a hurry. But because I make my living writing books, I would really like to ask your… — Subjudica House Copy Share Image
“Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially… — Saadat Hasan Manto Copy Share Image
I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so… — Steve Hely Copy Share Image
I wish I had time to do more reading, but I just haven't had much time. But I still find time for… — Youth Lagoon Copy Share Image
'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.' 'I'm sure I didn't mean - '… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers on the subject of August Strindberg have hitherto omitted to mention that he could not write. ... Strindberg, who was neither… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The thing about life is that life is an infinite subject matter. At any one moment you can say only what' before… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to… — Crawford Kilian Copy Share Image
I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
On past records I usually did start with a story or an idea for a song and then write around it, but… — David Bazan Copy Share Image
If anything, I hope being an artist opens up more opportunities 'cause I feel there's a lot of things I could do,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had… — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“Design is your silent storyteller. The visual aesthetic you share with the world tells a story about the values you uphold. When… — Laura Busche Copy Share Image
