One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Copy Share Image
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work. — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to… — John Green Copy Share Image
There's like a little bit of a narcissism - I think there's more than a little bit of narcissism about it, but… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside. — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I've been doing 'America's Newsroom' and lots of other news shows and writing over the years. That's my thing. — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
I had a very well-respected writer ask me point blank to my face whether it actually mattered to me. Now, without wanting… — Jim Furyk Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. — Jean-Francois Chevrier Copy Share Image
I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to… — Joan Armatrading Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
