For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
The album cover of 'Death of a Bachelor' is me on my roof of my backyard, so that's my place where I… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
“Writing structure is logical. Writing method at its best is instinctive. That way you get the benefits of both styles - improvisation… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer... and we must do everything in our power to prevent… — Irving Thalberg Copy Share Image
She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're… — Jennifer Konner Copy Share Image
“Reading had always been another world for him. Not an escape, since he rarely sought escape ... writers had to confront the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“I have a friend who is a very successful writer. Early in his career, he wrote a script that I thought was… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want… — David Hare Copy Share Image
I feel for Veronica Mars so much when I'm watching at home. It is a wonderful story. The writing is consistently funny,… — Jason Dohring Copy Share Image
Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Even if you are a superstar, you have to give your audience some content. Because there is so much good content out… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it. — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My interest was in renaissance literature, looking at how men were writing for women in the 1590s, a time when many women… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I never got into using my phone's calendar. It's easier to write in my Tiffany day planner. There's something charming about having… — Ali Larter Copy Share Image
I am fond of my writing in the film 'Mondi Mogudu Penki Pellam,' one of the first films to feature a mainstream… — Tanikella Bharani Copy Share Image
I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I'm not that sort of writer where I can restrict myself to a theme, just in case nothing good comes of it. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
I think any writer coming on to 'Batman' should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I'm writing songs, my favourite thing to do is to try and rabbit-trail and go places I've never gone to before.… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid to reveal that inside you is a seething, fiery core of ambition that would appall Napolean." By Russell Galen… — Julie L. Cannon Copy Share Image
I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
“I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“the “data scientist,” which combines the skills of the statistician, software programmer, infographics designer, and storyteller.” — Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Copy Share Image
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image