“I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway. — George Murray Copy Share Image
“I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I love co-writing. That whole process is a challenge in that good writers are pushing you. — Lauren Daigle Copy Share Image
All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room. — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I still wanted to prove that I was the best of all the second-rate writers. I refused all further requests to write… — Koonchung Chan Copy Share Image
Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
“For a writer it was perhaps most important not to write, but to read. Read as much as you can because in… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest… — Ivan Klima Copy Share Image
“Do not think of this as the end. Think of this as the beginning of eternity together . I have always loved… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't… — Santiago Cabrera Copy Share Image
Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a… — Max Beesley Copy Share Image
Our culture places a very high value on storytelling, and the more that Catholic writers are able to master that craft, the… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“This time it was the sentence opening the last part of a story I had worked on for months: a sentence as… — Louis Zukofsky Copy Share Image
“Writers,” Esther said simply. “For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“ I will be very careful the next time I fall in love , she told herself. Also, she had made a… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business. — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
“He offered her power, money, status... a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.” — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, New York Post Magazine , September 14, 1958)” — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago. — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow. — Christopher Golden Copy Share Image
With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have… — Jay Harrington Copy Share Image
“In a world that devalues creativity, writers stand in a courageous place.” — Greg Sushinsky Copy Share Image
“Because we were both writers and both worked at home our days were filled with the sound of each other's voice” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it… — Geary Davis Copy Share Image
