If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration … sometimes one or two people do… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it,… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I wasn't in a position that some other memoirists are, dealing with families who fed them meth, or kidnapped them, or did… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
My new favorite thing is to wake up in hotel rooms, and write on the hotel pads. Usually, it's nothing. I leave… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
It's different from music because music is like going deep down into soul, like scooping out all the difficult, beautiful, messy stuff… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
“True storytellers write not because they can but because they have to. There is something they want to say about the world… — John Freeman Copy Share Image
Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part… — Catherine McCormack Copy Share Image
I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because… — Zoe Foster Blake Copy Share Image
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free… — Margaret Foley Copy Share Image
As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point,… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
It doesn't excite me as a writer to write some swearing or sex scenes, because they don't have any emotional content. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders. — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
“The art is never about what you write about. The art is about how you write about what you write about.” — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the… — Tunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
