My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen… — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
“I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about - and the reader… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“It wouldn't be practical to have sections called "Dog Stories", "Horse Stories", "Mid-life Crisis and Adultery", "Writers and Artists Struggling to Discover… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to… — Julianna Margulies Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
My face responds without authorization from my brain, so the resulting smile feels like the biggest, most unguarded, goofiest smile I’ve ever… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
My life wasn't always smooth sailing. Two members of my family were diagnosed with cancer, so I spent a lot of time… — Hannah Tinti Copy Share Image
I was reading fan fiction on Wattpad, but they were taking a little bit to update the stories, so I started writing… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know… — Anthony Mason Copy Share Image
I'd like to get more involved in that world. I'm better when I'm teamed up with an experienced writer - when I… — Jason Biggs Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
“She hadn’t expected to still be reading it two hours later. Whoever this Kate Perry was, her writing was entertaining.” — Kate Perry Copy Share Image
While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I like to have a tiny bit of fact and then exaggerate it and turn it into something more… — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving… — Robert Kyncl Copy Share Image
Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has… — Elizabeth Kenny Copy Share Image
Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range” — Mpho Leteng Copy Share Image
