I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone. — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
“Never write when you can speak. Never speak when you can nod. Never nod when you can blink.” — M.B. Walsh Copy Share Image
“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
I never write fewer than sixteen headlines for a single advertisement. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.” — Primadonna Angela Copy Share Image
Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount. — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I started to see this common theme with the songs that I was writing or co-writing, and it all had this really… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
“In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can’t stop the lines in time, so I’m a… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence. — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
“With my guitar, I could write my own stories, my own poems, and my own destiny. No one could take away the… — Christine Zolendz Copy Share Image
The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Good writing, on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
“I do so much writing. But so much of it never goes anywhere, never sees any light of day. I suppose that's… — J.R. Tompkins Copy Share Image
