Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story. — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
“Writing is like knowing the beauty you possess inward; the possibilities are endless.” — Annette Whitaker-Moss Copy Share Image
When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out. — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst. — Marv Wolfman Copy Share Image
Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented. — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Writing a Metallica song is a journey and a process, and it takes time, but that's what's special about it. — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
At the 'Times,' all journalists on every subject followed the same rules and were supposed to meet the same standards, so I… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
When I'm writing something, if there's a part that's good for me, then I'll play it. Otherwise, I don't. And I notice… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to… — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression… — Shirley Ann Grau Copy Share Image
Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
For some people, the beginning is a time of complete chaos. You see bits and pieces of what is before you. You… — Vinita Hampton Wright Copy Share Image
“but when i write, i feel like the most important man in the world, because when i write, i give meaning to… — Elliot Mabeuse Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that they are really cool because they don't outline. In my writing group, they would say, "I… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“A struggling writer, 'I get hundreds of rejection letters each day. I am depressed with this life, Can you please help?' The… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
I used to wish I would be a painter or a violinist, where maybe I wouldn't need to travel as much. Or… — Kathy Baker Copy Share Image
Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Writing is the process of asking the next logical question. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
My advice to writers is: READ! A lot. Then read some more. read, read, read, read! — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think as a writer, it's important to show the other part of being gay, not only the sex part. — Luis Negron Copy Share Image
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Usually as an artist I would write relatively within my own playing boundaries. — Michael Tolcher Copy Share Image
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven. — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
