The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the…

Typically when I enter the cage, I'm usually the bigger fighter. There were only a couple occasions where I wasn't.

— Ovince Saint Preux

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

“I grew up thinking that writer and secretary were the same, except that a writer usually smelled of cocktails and came more often to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A script writer usually manipulates his characters in accordance to the script.

— Vetrimaaran

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He tries to go to life. So does every author except the very worst, but after all most of them live on predigested food.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or a B-section,…

— James Young

Hang Mortmain," said Will. "And I mean that literally, of course, but also figuratively.

— Cassandra Clare

I believe - figuratively, but in a very real way - we need to tent the White House!

— Pat Boone

“Well it seems you have me by the balls both literally and figuratively, don't you now?”

— K. Bromberg

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

— John Gielgud

It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if…

— Anonymous

“Speak from the gut, both literally and figuratively. It's pleasing to the ears, both literally and figuratively.”

— Nauman Faridi

he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I gave you up once. It killed me. it was figuratively but it still killed me. I’m not doin’ that shit again.”

— Kristen Ashley