There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see… — Gal Gadot Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Now let’s take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don’t step on the toes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, you need at least four of them, and… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxieties and insecurities and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve —… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I… — Lee Hazlewood Copy Share Image
“We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called… — Vanessa Bayer Copy Share Image
Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
“I wake up knowing that there is hope and patience. Every morning I wake up, I surrender myself to the Beautiful universe… — Jawed 's Copy Share Image
“Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don’t understand how momentous and difficult coming… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and is even said to have been used… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I'm terrified of getting what I'm not deserving of, feeling that I've got something for nothing... at the expense of brilliant starving… — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image