“Where the concrete kept his pain at bay, the page gave his pain a place to go.” — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Life Should Be Written With PencIl, So U CaN Go BaCk AnD ErAsE Ur MisTaKes — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even I thought I would be a writer who put something out every year. But that's not how it worked out. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
To all my haters , I hope you know I'm writing this with my middle finger. — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm willing to write a check for $10,000 if someone can bring to me what I fell is ruining thousands of lives,… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I've been working with a lot of people out in Hollywood on writing scripts, screenplays, directing, producing, and making music. — Enzo Amore Copy Share Image
A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
“I’ve often thought the biggest element of successful writing is the ability to get the seat of your pants to the seat… — Agnes Nixon Copy Share Image
What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
It's just like an idea, like a chorus, and then we just jam on it - it happens in loads of different… — Luke Pritchard Copy Share Image
Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk.… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
When I wrote Wakolda at first I wasn't conscious that I was writing about something so close to or that had so… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
“This is our skin and nobody has the right to crumple us like a paper only to find another skin to write… — Heema Shirvaikar Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I loved every minute of the scripting, writing and developing of 'APL.' — Rajpal Yadav Copy Share Image
When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books. — John Logan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it. — King Krule Copy Share Image
Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In the digital space, writers and directors get time to build and establish a character. — Rasika Dugal Copy Share Image
I didn't aspire to write and never considered it as a career option. — Vantile Whitfield Copy Share Image
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
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