As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising… — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
“I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
“Did you… need something?” he asked in a tight voice. I swallowed hard, my mind racing with a million things to say.… — Mari Mancusi Copy Share Image
I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially… — Mark Romanek Copy Share Image
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common… — Gillian Alexy Copy Share Image
As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum.… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
No Barstool writer has ever said or written one thing out of hate or anger. It's always to get a joke. — Dave Portnoy Copy Share Image
“He lives forever in his words, in his poems, and in his stories. An inspiration to many writers and poets all around… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“You must seduce poetry with the heart of your words before she'll sprinkle you with the magic of hers.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
