“Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to do it five… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by progress. They became traveling salesmen… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We… — Margaret Whiting Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how… — Julius Schwartz Copy Share Image
I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“I was smarter than him because I had a pen and God was my writer.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
“I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood… — Bill Loguidice Copy Share Image
“[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips.” — Jennifer Webb Copy Share Image
In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers'… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I will be moving to London to reinvent my whole identity the way Alice (Jane Jones) did in the movie, Closer. — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
