In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good. — Wendy Liebman Copy Share Image
Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, being a writer is a lousy job - grueling, emotionally taxing, terrible hours, no health care -… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
When I'm there, it's pure silence. There are other writers there, too, and I get super competitive. I have this weird fear… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“We are all too fixed on wrecking ourselves rather than bettering ourselves.” — Meggie Royer Copy Share Image
It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I used to get letters from guys in prison. Anymore now I don't even open them. They'd ask me to please sign… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Every single time I perform 'River,' I just feel a huge rush of adrenaline and energy, and I remember writing it. — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
Your gonna have fun staying with us. He paused with something more to say, but didn't seem like he knew how to.… — Jade Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber?… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
Well, everyone in my family is a writer. There is a big contribution on the script level by everyone. — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image