“Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I went to USC and got my first break writing for a kids' show called 'Pepper Ann.' — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“My words shouldn’t be trophies to look at, but seeds to continue the cycle of Life.” — Amy Layne Litzelman Copy Share Image
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes… — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
I'm still looking to write a great song… You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.” — John Waters Copy Share Image
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Here's another test. Of any activity you do, aks yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
“Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely… — Melanie Rae Thon Copy Share Image
I always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I'm thinking of… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
“We hear them continually on TV: hence they occur first when it is our turn to talk. In this regard, talk may… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Most acting today on television is like a locomotive on a track. Everybody knows what they are doing. The problem of writing… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
“But why do you write?— A: I am not one of those who think with an inky pen in their hand, much… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Writing your own blog platform is like roasting your own coffee: it's impractical and you probably shouldn't do it, but for people… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose. — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. — David Antin Copy Share Image
It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building. — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
“Do not write for money nor for fame, if you must write then write to be immortal” — Colin W. Hill Copy Share Image
At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
I work hard, whether it comes to writing for my own project or another artist. — Benji Hughes Copy Share Image
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
