Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
When you write, you put your thoughts in the public space. You get both positive and negative feedback. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Clearly texting, SMS and chat are very different than writing a letter or email. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes. — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks. — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer. — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“For a writer, a break from working is nonexistent; while you fingers may stop typing, your brain never stops writing, developing, changing,… — Nicole Gulla Copy Share Image
When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show… — Brian Van Holt Copy Share Image
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is brilliant because you can totally exaggerate everything and not have to worry about legal issues. — Coleen Nolan Copy Share Image
I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone.… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,'… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except… — Wolcott Gibbs Copy Share Image
“When no one is watching Mother Earth, and most of the time no one is, she sings softly to herself. Certainly no… — Sharon Weil Copy Share Image
“A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
