One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs. — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set. — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
I'm not asking for there to be all black writer's rooms or all Asian writer's rooms, or all white - I want… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a book as Stephen King's son, because all I did was get born, and that's not much… — Owen King Copy Share Image
“The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In the same way, I can wake up with a very positive idea of what I want to do for my collection,… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
The tone of good web writing grows out of email. It's more direct, personal, colloquial, urgent, witty, efficient. It doesn't waste your… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as… — Joel Dicker Copy Share Image
The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.” — Elizabeth Isaacs Copy Share Image
I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
“Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.” — Geraldine Solon Copy Share Image
I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so:… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
I got a degree in English from Brigham Young University, but I didnt study creative writingjust literature. I was too much a… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs — John Osborne Copy Share Image
