“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff. — DJ Ashba Copy Share Image
I've been writing plays since the third grade. The biggest difference now is that professionals act in them rather than eight year… — Colette Freedman Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you… — Del Shannon Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I used to only like writing with pen and paper, but because I travel so much, I started to lose the paper. — Saweetie Copy Share Image
The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I've always loved to write. I've been writing a lot longer than I've been acting, and I hope to continue to do… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a… — James Marsh Copy Share Image
Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I was feeling like I'd been born in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. I don't believe… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Do you have to do murder? Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two… — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I'd been in Hollywood for five years before I started writing 'The Guild.' I worked enough to pay all my bills. So… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major… — Heidi Klum Copy Share Image
When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made… — Brian McFadden Copy Share Image
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
They tell me to write a book. I say no thanks My skills are on sayings and quotes. So guess what I… — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Writing in another person's voice is a skill you have to develop when you're working on someone else's show. But if you… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
I think that collaboration makes me a better director and observer and writer because I can look at things in a different… — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I started writing 'Cod' at a time when people were first beginning to take an interest in the problem of fisheries because… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“The hardest part of writing a story is making bad things happen to good people. The hardest part of writing horror is… — Allison M. Dickson Copy Share Image
I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
Do not reflect on the meaning of the word; thinking and reflecting must cease, as all mystical writers insist. Simply "sound" the… — Willigis Jager Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
