“Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working' .” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write. — David Means Copy Share Image
Why do I always write about love when it seems like love has written me off? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!” — Tony Jones Copy Share Image
“I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.” — Lettie Prell Copy Share Image
I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction. — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is like being in a relationship. If you're not 100% committed to your writing, you will fail to be… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way… — Barry Gibb Copy Share Image
I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“I once assigned a graduate class Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life—a book I love—and one of the students said, “It’s so effing… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do--then go ahead and do… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Writing New People I was thinking a lot about the era that I came of age - the 90's. Brooklyn, in particular,… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens… — Peter Brooks Copy Share Image
As an actor, I never really had a strategy. I just take projects, as they come. It all comes down to the… — Chris Vance Copy Share Image
Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image