I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard… — Stanley Unwin Copy Share Image
The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented. — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
So many writers don't like to write... I like to write, and sometimes I'm afraid I like it too much, because when… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Whenever you’re down on your luck, and when things aren’t going the way you like, remember that you are the author of… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Gavin DeGraw - his first record is the reason that I wanted to start writing music. The way that he says something… — Brett Young Copy Share Image
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
I'm kind of at the mercy of writers out there. I need a writer out there who wants to write a vehicle… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is... simply… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
During my career as a standup and actor, I realized it was very frustrating for me to get hired because Hollywood was… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
Writing about my life was a 13-year process where I had to face my demons as I wrote and take the time… — Dominique Jackson Copy Share Image
If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer...I would just be well adjusted. — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“You'd die of shame at the thought of showing anyone what you'd written. Somebody somewhere says that 'the urge to preserve is… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It's like they're afraid to write the damn thing. And… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“From 'The Suicide', a play by the Russian writer Nikolai Erdman: 'Only the dead can say what the living are thinking.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
As a writer I'm committed to exploring what I call "The invisible things" - the things that people aren't talking about. I… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
In the study of management, unfortunately, many writers have been so anxious to articulate a theory in the form of, "If you… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty deep guy. I'm not a tough guy at all. People think I give this persona that I'm thick-skinned, but… — Thomas Grennan Copy Share Image
“The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one subject - freedom” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
The writing is therapeutic for me, it's an introverted process, I'm really inside my head. It's a really obsessive process. The live… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy… — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
