Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them. — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
I have ventured out and written about real-life experiences that I haven't gone through myself, but I've known people to go through… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language.… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
I like to always wash the slate clean, and reinvigorate my spirit to be connected to the characters that I am doing.… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Laymen are not allowed to carry around the blessed Host to throw at people.” — John C Wright Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer… — Dennis Farina Copy Share Image
I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on… — Peter David Copy Share Image
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I feel like too many horror writers and filmmakers sort of just assume that the default is, 'The horror movie must be… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“I remember a man, a very lonely man, coming up to me at the end of a reading and looking into my… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
