I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y’all helped grow up to be writers” — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific. — John Updike Copy Share Image
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I love entering the private world that each writer gives us through their books” — MBarreto Condado Copy Share Image
Ask yourself, "Why do I want to be in shape?" and write all ... Put your list everywhere to constantly remind yourself… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
Life being so short, and the possible books to write so many, it's good to function by night as well as by… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
I, too, am interested in identity and Islam, which is what people expect of us. But one must not write what is… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
“My quick-summoned first love—how everything was enough because I knew so little but felt cramped with certainty—is, I’m afraid, just like writing.… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that… — Amina Mama Copy Share Image
“I should write a serious book on China. If I did that and put in a lot of subtext about love and… — Jesse James Freeman Copy Share Image
But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it, — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“I am free to write what I want and my readers are free to think what they can” — Marlowe Sr Copy Share Image
When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“Words are the closest any of us can come to making something from nothing at all.” — Danielle Ackley-McPhail Copy Share Image
Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories. — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
