It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me. — Gerry Beckley Copy Share Image
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Since - in my belief system - we each get only one go-round here on planet Earth, it is the task of… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
I love people like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, people who create and write their own stuff - especially when there's just… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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In my own work, when I start off writing a scene, I don't know which physical details are going to turn out… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
As I was writing 'The Shock Doctrine', I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
Writers around the world protested when two Communist writers, Siniavski and Daniel, were sentenced to prison by their own comrades. But not… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I came to Nashville when I was 17. I've been blessed to have written with so many of… — RaeLynn Copy Share Image
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
If you become very self-conscious about what you are doing, you kill. You kill the character. Then it doesn't work. You have… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
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