From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals. — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves,… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and… — David Cross Copy Share Image
In writing on the page, you can be a bit elliptical, but on TV, you can't dance around stuff. You either show… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience. — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
As a writer, I could write in Canada and still get the American benefits. But I wanted to come down here for… — Kelly Oxford Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm really inspired right now by a lot of the actors and actresses who are pursuing storytelling outside of just acting. They're… — Cynthia Addai-Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm writing all the time, really. It's become a little bit of a problem when I go home. Sometimes I should really… — Shawn Mendes Copy Share Image
“God exacted interest like a loanshark, you paid and kept paying and still He broke all yr bones, one Yom Kippur, at… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I think a lot of creators are attracted to those toys they got to play with when they were young, and everyone… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I'm writing about what's happening to me now. I mean, I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I've come to find that I am definitely not cut out for the isolated writer thing, locking myself away and writing and… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
The basic idea of making this film was that even if one person is touched by the thought in the film, then… — Karan Wahi Copy Share Image
I know all actors are different, but I've never sat down and asked the writers, 'Where are we headed? Am I good… — Blair Brown Copy Share Image
You can catch a scent in the wind - an idea, or a concept - and follow it. You can delve into… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by… — Ramin Bahrani Copy Share Image
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Let those who can write to write and bring more knowldge and understading to the society. And let those who can read… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
I'm a power fanatic. I like to own things, and have them be mine. Acting doesn't belong to you, if you're not… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
I want to be respected as a writer and, like I said, I was really sick of people saying I was a… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
It used to be for writers that that six seasons and a movie thing, that's the holy grail as writers - your… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
If I get a chance to write a comic book or do a voice in an Adult Swim show, I do it.… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul? — William McFee Copy Share Image
Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
