I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers. — Maurissa Tancharoen Copy Share Image
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier to write than scenery; nothing more difficult and unnecessary to read.” — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write… — David Ives Copy Share Image
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
I can't say enough about 'The First Time.' It was such an awesome experience. Jon Kasdan, the writer/director, was great. He's such… — Dylan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I just had a really crappy time in school and I spent a lot of time writing songs and not doing work.… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
“To all my readers. I don't need my daughter's okay to do anything. I was a writer before she was my daughter.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The trouble with Christianity was that by about 150, there were hardly any Jews left in the Christian church, and so from… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“In his mockery of Pagans, Christian writer Minucius Felix (3rd cent.) revealed that the Egyptians, and afterwards the Romans, beheld an empty… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.' — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. — P. J. Harvey Copy Share Image
“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person. — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
History written by the victims trickles down in the form of folklore. — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand! — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting. — Adam Brody Copy Share Image
I've loved doing 'E.R.' for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with. — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
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