There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly,… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind. — Jon Watts Copy Share Image
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife. — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other. — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
he asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“Practical advice.—People who read much must always keep it in mind that life is one thing, literature another. Not that authors invariably… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I don't like to read or write about life in its tiring entirety. Most days, months, even years are just filler between… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“The Hindustani storyteller always knows when he loses his audience," he said. "Because the audience simply gets up and leave, or else… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric… — Scott Yanow Copy Share Image
“You might say as you tirelessly said of my stories, at least of the adjectives, that I should render the evidence, not… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on… — James Burrows Copy Share Image
And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I'm just somebody who tries to write things that entertain people. And if I can do it in a way that makes… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer and the logical way to do that was journalism. I took up a course in… — Nag Ashwin Copy Share Image
“Scott Adams: From him, I learned how to write a three-panel comic. Probably the best pure writer on the comics page.” — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
“I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.” — Tyler Hojberg Copy Share Image
You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now,… — Luis Fortuno Copy Share Image
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to… — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
