First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
This indictment of Christianity I will write on all walls, wherever there are walls - I have letters to make even the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff,… — Mick Jones Copy Share Image
Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering. — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world… — Victoria Laurie Copy Share Image
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
Of course I want the things I write to reflect well on me or anyone who might feel represented by me, but… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious… — Rossiter Johnson Copy Share Image
Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me,… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel,… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I believe that when we write things down, we being the process of activating the fundamentals in our lives. — Jim Tressel Copy Share Image
I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to… — Shunroku Hata Copy Share Image
Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write.… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I… — Alison Krauss Copy Share Image
I'm going to be writing and directing my own videos, and performing in them too, and I'm super-excited about it. — Mikey Day Copy Share Image
If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved. — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception. — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
When I booked 'Arrested Development,' which was a fantastic job, and I was working with an amazing cast and some of the… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
