“Writing takes place in an open playing field with limitless possibilities, most of them terrible.” — Scott Gates Copy Share Image
“The adventurer became the storyteller...and then the Sentinel of the Sea.” — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
“It's a way of clearing the palate. Kids come into the classroom with all this other stuff in their hands. If they… — Joan Countryman Copy Share Image
“Writing structure is logical. Writing method at its best is instinctive. That way you get the benefits of both styles - improvisation… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
“The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost. — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart… — Kendall Dana Lockerman Copy Share Image
Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier than to find some individuals—in any group—who share a given writer’s opinion, and to quote such individuals as if… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
We are so programmed to feel that our emotions are the most important thing in the Universe...We write, produce and act in… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“… writing is always some form of interpretation, some form of translating the specificity of one’s roots or expertise or even one’s… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Start with a word. A word leads to a sentence, which leads to a paragraph, which leads to a chapter, which leads… — Mark Pettinger Copy Share Image
“Ally wasn't disappointed in the writers: she hadn't expected anything from them in the first place; it hadn't occurred to her to… — Tessa Hadley Copy Share Image
[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“I’ve often thought the biggest element of successful writing is the ability to get the seat of your pants to the seat… — Agnes Nixon Copy Share Image
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry. — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for… — Burt Ward Copy Share Image
There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter… — Lily King Copy Share Image
It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better. — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't… — David Grann Copy Share Image