Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I was surrounded by… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
“GENERAL NOTE TO MYSELF - Douglas Adams Writing isn’t so bad really when you get through the worry. Forget about the worry,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I started out with three creative jobs - painter, janitor and gag writer. — William Hanna Copy Share Image
“Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this… — Helen Marshall Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child. — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't… — Nancy Arroyo Ruffin Copy Share Image
The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on… — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8.… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see,… — Ted Kotcheff Copy Share Image
The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I'm one of those sad cases who've never wanted to be anything but a writer. I started writing my first novel when… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a… — adam johnson Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
