It's always helpful to put things down on paper. That's why I started writing. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life. — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will! — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.” — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
“I might not have ever had the courage to write those stories without that experience, that training ground in how to look… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“For Gone Girl, I knew Nick and Amy had to be very believable, so I made ipod playlists for them, and knew… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I've discovered that like every writer, I'm helpless MYSELF - and that means I find myself unconsciously or semi-consciously repeating motifs and… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouses, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. When people… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“Human females, they're kind of crazy during this time aren't they? If you chose to believe the stories written by male writers.… — Anne Biship Copy Share Image
When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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