If I'm going to do a big film, I'm very choosy about what I do, because I think I want to continue… — James Duval Copy Share Image
I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
Sometimes with good writers you don't spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one. — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul.… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
“I am Orafoura, but you can call me Jarod Kintz. I’m fairly proud to proclaim that Dora J. Arod has me on… — Orafoura Copy Share Image
But this is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they… — Thomas Fleming Copy Share Image
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
“There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history. — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.” — Arthur Holitscher Copy Share Image
I believe that writers run out of material, I really do. I believe very strongly in the fact that when the natural… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I often said that writers are of two types. There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image