I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“I can’t stop writing you. You, the pleasure which exiled me for awhile. You of the whom dream, the bell swinging with… — Michael Burkard Copy Share Image
“The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize… — Javier A. Robayo Copy Share Image
I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look. — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
“I was headfirst into the deep ocean before I learned how to control my dinghy in the swimming pool.” — Jane Fancher Copy Share Image
I'd been basically anchored in New York for three years, but I fled to L.A. after the funeral and decided that I… — James Toback Copy Share Image
If you are genuinely writing to Time Out for financial advice I'd stop worrying about ending up horribly poor and just accept… — Tom Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“JEAN Boy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one! COLONEL Don't be vulgar, Jane. Let… — Preston Sturges Copy Share Image
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own. ~from "the damned” — D.W.Metz Copy Share Image
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just learned that his brain child is a… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
When I'm writing with Tony Iommi, for example, still it's very easy. We go in, and I know exactly what his style… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When I got hurt, I wanted to develop my skills from a storytelling perspective, do the work, read books. Develop things. To… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time. — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
My biggest ritual is writing at home more than on the road. I do very little writing on the road. Actually, it's… — Chris Young Copy Share Image
“Gram, you should have been a romance writer." Creighton wasn't her soul mate. The man was probably just lonely, living in such… — Vonnie Davis Copy Share Image
It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
We need to discuss what our own standards are for games writing that falls outside of journalism, and support experimental formats and… — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
