The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
What did you write on here? ‘Don’t die’?” “No, I wrote, ‘Don’t be an asshole!’”I headed for the house. “On yours or… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Plasma on the wall/Write my name on your heart like I'm Lucille Ball/But love changes, a thug changes/And best friends become strangers — Ras Kass Copy Share Image
Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process. — Mark Consuelos Copy Share Image
Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture…He takes upon himself… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to… — Nadia Ali Copy Share Image
In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
When my career started on daytime soaps, those characters usually didn't have much depth to them. The main goal was to memorize… — Andrea Navedo Copy Share Image
“Thus, neither of us is alive when the reader opens this book. But while the blood still throbs through my writing hand,… — Vladimir Nabakov Copy Share Image
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
I've tried in the past to blog about ghostwriting and have failed. I have a lot of opinions on the whole issue,… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I write for a purpose. I was born to use papers and books to speak up. I was born to use my… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories. — Ron Shock Copy Share Image
When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage.… — Jim McKelvey Copy Share Image
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm most proud of about myself is my ability to fail in front of the world. You have… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
“I want to read every book that’s written hear every song that was sung I want to gaze at every cloud and… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with. — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
My primary reason for bringing my son on was to have a voice on the show [Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll] that would bring a 25… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image