Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.” — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“I don't know who to write to anymore... They've changed their souls, that's a way to be disloyal, to forget, to keep… — Céline Copy Share Image
Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in the shades and… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I'm letting people know how to reach right in… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber,… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“I thank everybody in this book for coming. -A.W., AUTHOR AND MEDIUM” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“All writers recognize this surge of striking; in its energies the objects of the world are made new, alchemized by their passage… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Writers, when they’re good, open windows to worlds held precious and priceless by the soul. It is a sad day when they… — psyche roxas-mendoza Copy Share Image
I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar. — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
My general approach to writing fiction is that you try to have as few conceptual notions as possible and you just respond… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not. — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
I'm writing this memoir from the perspective of somebody who's prosperous and has means. Having said that, one of the things that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“People who can read and write expertly, as you can, are miracles and, in my opinion, entitle us to suspect we might… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm always looking for what I call the universal, something everyone has felt and they can identify with. That's… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
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That's what all of us, as writers, actors and comedians, set out to do - shine a light on new perspectives. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene. [ An Invitation to Learning , January 1942]” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“I’ll write something that’s 111% true. It’ll be so true that it’ll be 100% false.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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