TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television. — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
“I felt I had to write down my observations about you in a book. And also for money, so you could eat… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else. — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Great travel writing consists of equal parts curiosity, vulnerability and vocabulary. It is not a terrain for know-it-alls or the indecisive. The… — Tom Miller Copy Share Image
If you think your demeanor is mellow or not particularly charismatic, the material can life you higher. So write everyday, and get… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I used to have to come home and write and then record work tapes of those new songs. So now I can… — Granger Smith Copy Share Image
You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If we compare the present state of the New Testament text with that of any other ancient writing, we must... declare it… — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I think I'm a good joke writer. I'm also very scared that the last joke I wrote is the last joke I'll… — Michelle Wolf Copy Share Image
If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want… — Patty Murray Copy Share Image
I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative. — Katrina Lake Copy Share Image
I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I write about Texas, New York, California and Virginia, and they're all important places in my repertoire. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing,… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
I would love to write and produce. I feel as if as an actor I'm just a small part you have to… — Gabrielle Dennis Copy Share Image
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“Feed your creative mind. Feed your joyful, selfless heart. Feed your soul to grow. Feed with books, music, painting or arts, Feed… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image