For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out… — Faith Sullivan Copy Share Image
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“You can read until you’re blue in the face, but I’d recommend writing until you’re red in the face. And ass.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the… — Peter Cochrane Copy Share Image
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames. — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
Parenthesis-proud, bracket-bold, happiest with hyphens, The writers stagger intoxicated by terms, adjective-unsteadied — Anthony Brode Copy Share Image
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“It seems important to me that beginning writers ponder this—that since 1964, I have never had a book, story or poem rejected… — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
I still want to write Clint Eastwood a letter saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all us wimp actors. You're the truth.'… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!" — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out… — Jon Pardi Copy Share Image
I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I… — Pawel Pawlikowski Copy Share Image
The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Committing to providing greater opportunities for disabled actors should include writing disabilities into more roles where it is irrelevant to the storyline. — Chris McCausland Copy Share Image
As an actor, you are always waiting for someone else to be able to tell you when it's okay to work, and… — Matt Letscher Copy Share Image
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“When all is said and done, later in this century, and in the next one, and the century after that, it will… — Arlene Sanders Copy Share Image
A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
I have been in advertising and I know my craft well, but ultimately in cinema every scene has to matter, and that… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
I don't want to be on a soapbox, but I feel like a lot of documentary filmmakers are part of the ancient… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
“It seems altogether probable that we would live with far greater care if we realized that in living out our day we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
