I have a day job where I make money and satisfy my self-esteem. Writing is for fun, and I want to keep… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I like visceral writing that people can't help but respond to, even if they respond, and they're shocked, or they're angry, or… — Geneva Carr Copy Share Image
I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary,… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and… — John Dieterich Copy Share Image
One major difference I observe between professional and amateur writers is that pros can take constructive criticism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
“What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thoughts; gay moods and… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Normally there are three kinds of roles or tropes for us. We're either the villain because I have a disfigurement and I… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable... The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The creative part, with the writing of it and the vision, and finding the voice of a show and the characters, is… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music,… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is writing a different theme, which is it's midnight in America and that things are bad, and they're bleak, and… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
It takes only a little space to write I LOST YOU. . . . But it will take whole of my life… — Mayurkumar Solanki Copy Share Image
“You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper” — Teresa Nielsen Haydense Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
We need to include more writers from different backgrounds and ethnicities. We need to see different experiences instead of the same people… — Letitia Wright Copy Share Image
Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The young people have a phrase for this now, which is "slay in your lane." That's a very important principle of writing.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
I get a lot of people who will either write to me or come up in public and say, "My daughter, son,… — Atticus Shaffer Copy Share Image
Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I started out writings songs for what I thought was going to be a maximum of five people down our local pub. — Romy Madley Croft Copy Share Image
Even though I didn't write 'Shaun Of The Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' I never felt left out of the creative process. — Nick Frost Copy Share Image
I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons. — Paul Conrad Copy Share Image
“My first three books, the collections, were fun to write and a great start but I have matured so much as a… — Ricardo Fleshman Copy Share Image
