For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
I was afraid that not even Merlin the Enchanter could transform me into a writer. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
When you're writing about a relationship, whether it's an interpersonal one or not, it's still about communication and trying to be understood… — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
I'll never run out of things to rap about. Sometimes you sit there and think, 'I can't do it, I can't do… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.” — Alan McCluskey Copy Share Image
Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“Her study of the United States in 1837, Society in America—written after a ten-thousand-mile trek across the country that took two years—was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the things my friends would tell you is that I hang out with a lot of non-writers - just regular… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.) for: the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
