If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
My inspiration comes from that and so I wrote ‘Killing Jesus,’ because I think I was directed to write that. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Writing is flat, so if you only have part of one eye working, you still can do the job. It's just that… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“Before I’ll take my clone on as a pupil in the craft of writing, he must prove his worthiness. He must write… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
From those who agonize that they may no longer be able to write off their private jet to someone who doesn't feel… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, oh my god, I'm never going to work… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“And yes, the Hemingways, the Fitzgeralds, the Faulkners and the Capotes. Drank while writing. Drink next to the typewriter. But the longer… — Jeanne Darst Copy Share Image
You could easily play the guy as straight-up hood throughout the whole movie, the Imperial Courts, but writer and director Malik Vitthal… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first song I've ever written about myself. It's a… — Ben Hopkins Copy Share Image
I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people. — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see… — Sadie Calvano Copy Share Image
People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so. — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write,… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
“Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.” — Red Red Rover Copy Share Image
PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“Writing is like a relationship. When it is good, it is damn good; when it is bad, you contemplate murder.” — Nevea Lane Copy Share Image
I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want… — Abigail Breslin Copy Share Image
“Writers are fortunate in that they are able to treat their neurosis every day by writing and as soon as the writer… — Edmund Bergler Copy Share Image
“I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me… — Lisa McMann Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
One should take writers' valuations of their own work with a pinch of salt: they are likely to rank them differently tomorrow. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
