I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc. — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
My time online has shown me that the viewers will respond most to authentic storytelling. — Eugene Lee Yang Copy Share Image
Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity. — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“George Blankenship, a top executive of Apple’s retail initiative when it began, explained the very real link between storytelling and driving demand.” — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression… — Mariela Griffor Copy Share Image
In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything,… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
Simply put, meta-writing is writing that is self-conscious, self-reflective, and aware of itself as an artifice. The writer is aware she's writing,… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you… — Elaine Orr Copy Share Image
I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was for me to sing.… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend. — Marc Bolan Copy Share Image
Work at your craft, write daily, and follow your dreams because dreams do come true. — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years. — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs on my own since I was 13, and the same is true of Derek. — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. — Charles Willeford Copy Share Image
Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I started out with three creative jobs - painter, janitor and gag writer. — William Hanna Copy Share Image
