Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them. — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
A writer must experiment with genres. Otherwise, it is a restriction on the craft. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell,… — Josh Lawson Copy Share Image
For someone who wants to write a story, they should go on thinking about the story. When it comes up to a… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN. We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I love writing. I love getting lost in creative projects when I'm going through a tough transition in life. I always keep… — Melanie Iglesias Copy Share Image
“Remember this: a simple pen is much more swift and much more precise than a camera. That's my advice to both beginning… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Wait a second, is a snooty book critic actually admitting to judging books by their covers?” — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true. — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting. — Neil Drumming Copy Share Image
People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
