I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string… — Joyce DeWitt Copy Share Image
I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old.… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable. — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Because I'm a bald, dim-witted writer, people think I couldn't possibly be her husband, so they occasionally confuse me for someone more… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize… — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music. — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Technically, I direct, I'm a writer, and I do all these things, but I never went to school for them. It's just… — Ryan Higa Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
And my experience is the best titles, for me, emerge in the process of writing. They don't usually come at the very… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“To achieve works of meaning, a writer (or any artist) must cut into himself and leave his soul on the canvas, exposed… — Mardra Sikora Copy Share Image
“Love and ruin are explained with letters of the alphabet. The power of the word can describe the glory of the universe.… — J.R. Ortiz Copy Share Image
If the writers all come from the same backgrounds, you are going to get the same sorts of characters. Get a broader… — Sophie Okonedo Copy Share Image
