“For me -- for pretty much every writer -- the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity.” — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
In advertisements for your favorite products, are women denigrated or objectified in some way? All of that is important. I would rewrite… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
“always put off writing by reorganizing my entire house and spending way too much time and money buying office supplies and organizing… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a… — Antara Mali Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As far as the adjectives that I lead with, I think a writer and a comedienne are first. I have never qualified… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Writing is so much more productive when it is set on fire, for then and only then can you feel the passion… — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
“Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way.” — Sharen Song Copy Share Image
I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night. — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
“JUDGE LITTLEFIELD (re: the writ): Cunningham, I do not like it when lawyers go over my head. CUNNINGHAM: You gave me no… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
