Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do… — Charlie Murphy Copy Share Image
How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers. — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
As one of your writers said, 'There are three kinds of lies: a small lie, a big lie and politics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.” — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an algorithm… — Philip M. Parker Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“The distinguished dead are clay in the hands of writers, and chance determines the shapes that their characters assume in the books… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in… — Lisa Washington Copy Share Image
“But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Don't think too much. There'll be time to think later. Analysis won't help. You're chiseling now. You're passing your hands over the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
As an unpublished, nonprofessional writer working on my first novel, I nevertheless had access to extremely talented people who would help make… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
“What happens to the people who became writers because yakking and tweeting and bragging felt to them like intolerably shallow forms of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“At that moment, sitting on that park bench, The Writer was overcome by an indefinable sadness not completely ascribable to the state… — Filippo Bologna Copy Share Image
“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Please then, can we stop this obsession with the tiny minority of writers who have made a fortune from their work, and/or… — Caroline Sanderson Copy Share Image
An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did. — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into. — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
“Part of the desire to see each other succeed is to stop putting a price on success.” — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
The pen is mightier than the sword… unless you are percy jackson and they are the same thing — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Since my schooldays, I've read the translations of Bengali writers. I'm Punjabi, but I read a lot of Bengali and Urdu literature. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of… — Michelle Geaney Copy Share Image
Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines. — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space… — Eddie Cahill Copy Share Image
“Somtimes its good to close control because that’s one of ways to understand that we were going in the wrong direction.” — Jawedquotes Copy Share Image
“The sea of reporters on her lawn made Loretta Brooks do a double take.” — Missy Lyons Copy Share Image
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus Copy Share Image
