I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
If I had to rate them in order of preference, it would be writer, director, actor and then producer. — Rakshit Shetty Copy Share Image
Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“Black is beautiful. Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if… — Lewis H. Michaux Copy Share Image
“When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
“Maybe Laura’s real problem came in admitting this: there was nothing new under the sun. To write a story would be, somehow… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“If you're the 'brilliant writer' in the room, you're in the wrong writers' room.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
I managed to get a short film with Channel 4 Films. I cast a young actor who'd done a bit of television… — Justin Chadwick Copy Share Image
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold; the gist of the matter is to… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
