Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“Ron Carlson says, 'The most undervalued craft device that fiction writers need is empathy. You need to be able to actually imagine… — Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Copy Share Image
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
With every script, I write a note to my collaborator that says: 'I write full script. But see it as a guide.… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a… — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image
“Artists frequently hide the steps that lead to their masterpieces. They want their work and their career to be shrouded in the… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
My life isn't interesting! It's my mom. You need to write her life and put me in it. I'm a cameo in… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your… — Lorde Copy Share Image
I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's. — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Life gives us struggles first and reward later. And as a writer my life's purpose is to write and tell stories. Some… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
