Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president. — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black,… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I want to be just a musician and songwriter, and hopefully known as a very good one. I love a lot of… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
“Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will comfort and enlighten someone… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I don't want to pick on Deutsche Bank, but I think the world of the regulated financial conglomerate, it is a strange… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed.… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems. The contrasts between the haves and… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you. — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
“Without pandering to your presumed desire to identify with the hero of a story, they made you feel that what mattered to… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I write you a letter that begins With I love you and ends with I love you and Somewhere in the middle… — Patricia Smith Copy Share Image
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I started writing - just generally - when I was 10, there, and started writing songs when I was maybe 11 turning 12. — Montaigne Copy Share Image
Anybody who writes knows the horrible, wonderful, beautiful foulness that comes every week. A lot of moaning, screaming agony - "Oh my… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects with a few strokes.” — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Writing scripts is fine because you get through a page quickly. But writing words just reminds me of school. To me a… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
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