I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words,… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
“What if it were as they say? If, while I believe I am writing in fun, what I write were really dictated… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
When... I told my father I wanted to be a writer, he had asked me to consider my unfortunate wife, who would… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Do you think you’re not ‘ready’ to start that big story idea/project you’ve been thinking about forever? Jump in. Write anyway. The… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I am not opposed to killing off villains. That's not the kind of later biting in the ass I… — Gabbo De La Parra Copy Share Image
I think at the start of writing it was less intense topics, and then once I broke the seal I was more… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
“Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something--a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites… — Nadine C. Keels Copy Share Image
Other people have suggested that I write about teens because I'm perpetually stuck in that stage of my own development. That could… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
I think all writing is about writing. All writing is a way of going out and exploring the world, of examining the… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I went to LA because my parents were there and somebody asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. It… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy,… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
“Stories hang from the trees, hive under the coffee table, gather like glass on the corners of the road. To pick them… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
“If I can teach myself the art of loneliness, then perhaps the art of writing will come more easily to me.” — Nell Stevens Copy Share Image
“Writing is the witness to myself about myself. Whatever others say of me or how they interpret me is a simulacrum of… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I love most 70's song writers, not so much outlaw, but really those 70's guys. I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash… — Bryan Hayes Copy Share Image
I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which… — Charles Bartlett Johnson Copy Share Image
[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for. — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps. — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true.… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
I tend to write two stories every day, five days a week. It's a real grind. But it also allows me to… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.” — Amaya Ellman Copy Share Image
By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“Readers have some peculiar notions about the status of writers, the most foolish of which is that writers are treated like royalty… — Reed Farrel Coleman Copy Share Image
What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
My goal growing up was to write a book. That's why I studied English and creative writing in college, and that is… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do… — Gypsy Rose Lee Copy Share Image
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image