A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.' — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
“I’ve long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn’t… — Logan Kain Copy Share Image
“I was thinking the other day about the idea that you have a reader and a writer, and they’re different and they’re… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that? — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Do not insult a writer by asking him questions related to books written by someone else. If you are not reading the… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
There's not a single NFL writer in the country who could diagram a play for Bill Belichick. — Colin Cowherd Copy Share Image
“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones… — Ayokunle Falomo Copy Share Image
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family. — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
Every writer has compressed time and procedure, and used clarifying dialogue. That's not a scandal: it's a legitimate dramatic technique. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't… — Eminem Copy Share Image
“From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
