Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if…

Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful…

— Carl Reiner

I do worry about a world in which the rich get to write the rules.

— Angus Deaton

A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So…

— Norm MacDonald

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original…

— Colin Firth

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

— David Cronenberg

We really believe, existing in a climate where comic books and franchises are the order of the day, that new material and writers need…

— Bryan Lourd

If we got writing assignments in English class to make up a story, that was when the glimmer of creativity popped out. That was…

— Charles Forsman

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

— Jackie Collins

No one can write their real religious life with pen or pencil. It is written only in actions, and its seal is our character,…

— Wilfred Grenfell

“It is difficult to write about a real person.”

— T.H. White

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe…

— Nicole Krauss

“How do you write about something, even something real and painful-like suicide-when all of the writing that's been done on that subject has robbed…

— Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot

I like to write about real-life topics, and I like to write about different walks of life.

— Mark Foster

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

— Emily Giffin