I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff. — Abigail Breslin Copy Share Image
There are some writers who don't write about people who do jobs. I'm not going to name them, but you watch one… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Do not compare your love story to those you watch in movies.. they are written by script writers.. and yours is written… — Aisan Copy Share Image
You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“The most important piece of writing advice: Have something to say. Whenever I have trouble writing, it’s because I’m trying to write… — GRETCHEN RUBIN Copy Share Image
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Writers can express ideas and emotions that are important to them but have no other means of expression. Some of these ideas… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“There’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
