Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Jake's hair smelled like iced tea with honey in it, after all the ice has melted.” — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I was focused as a writer and marketing and a character. I was like Jim Carrey. — Enzo Amore Copy Share Image
“Each of us carries a story written in the language of our mothers, still echoing through our bones.” — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
When you're writing for a movie, you're trying to capture the emotion of a scene. I find it a fascinating process. — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world… Any writer who lacks this… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that… — Paul Horgan Copy Share Image
One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
“But, it didn’t matter that my mother suspected and knew that I was a writer. It was expected of me to take… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
