I don't mind people writing about me. Personal attacks are different, but political arguments? I'm putting myself out there on a daily… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal.… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Writing means organizing your thoughts. If your mind is scattered, your writing is scattered. If your mind is focused, your writing will… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
You know something like 'Patriots Day' that I did a few years ago, which is a drama, is very different than comedy.… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I think that collaboration makes me a better director and observer and writer because I can look at things in a different… — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.” — Neil Young Copy Share Image
They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I write for the same reason I eat chocolate - because it is, undeniably a compulsion.” — Emma Shortt Copy Share Image
There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
“In stories, when someone behaves uncharacteristically, we take it as a meaningful, even pivotal moment. If we are surprised again and again,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage;… — Laurence D'Orsay Copy Share Image
“What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?'… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
