At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life…

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

— Edward Sapir

“Find I can get my point across a lot better writing them down”

— Kathryn Stockett

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.

— David Duchovny

“She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.”

— David Nicholls

What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far.

— Lynn Coady

I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from our vocabulary…

— Naomi Wallace

It's good to talk...its better if you have it in writing.

— Robert D Dangoor

My agent will say, 'Well, it's another graphic novel.' I don't care. It's better writing than anything else that's out there. The characters are…

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

“...passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by the time…

— Mignon Fogarty

I'm really bad writing the chase scenes or fighting scenes. I'm much better for writing, like, a more melancholic or tragic music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of…

— David Nicholls

I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart…

— Rainbow Rowell

The more you read, the better you are at writing, no matter what you're writing. A lot of songwriters miss that and don't see…

— Jason Isbell

“I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.”

— Anna Quindlen

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not…

— Val Guest