I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write.… — Tony Gaskins Copy Share Image
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about… — Lorene Scafaria Copy Share Image
I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“What are you thinking? She smiled. I think you can figure it out. You can read the writing on the wall. And… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
I love to publish new writers, and we do so consistently. But a lot of contemporary American poets sound alike to me.… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
Tax day was yesterday. And marijuana growers are complaining that they can't write off a single expense thanks to federal laws. Well,… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of… — Philip J. Klass Copy Share Image
Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists...… — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting,… — Donald Murray Copy Share Image
When a boy writes off the world, it's done with sloppy misspelled words, if / a girl writes off the world it's… — Sage Francis Copy Share Image
The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise,… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
“As one former fake news writer told 60 Minutes, if it is in a news-ish format and agrees with preexisting biases, people… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen.… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
“I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to prove as a writer anymore. I write about Panera Bread or Red Lobster or Satan or Richard… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
“Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.” — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Doctor Who' is the best show to write for, because of the actors and the scale of imagination that it demands. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I… — Sia Copy Share Image
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
I loved writing and performing, but the idea of doing it for a living seemed so remote. But I eventually let it… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become… — Walter Huston Copy Share Image
