I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership. — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
In India, not enough importance is given to writing for children. And what could be more important than the enrichment of young… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way:… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr.… — Jim Bakker Copy Share Image
Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
“I’ve often quoted the enigmatic writer Virginia Woolf whenever any of my eight children appear to be questioning what direction to take… — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight. But I'm… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
“I write to express myself, I write to be a voice for those who can not speak I write to inspire change… — Criss Tareyton Copy Share Image
Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist,… — Tom Sizemore Copy Share Image
You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset. — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put… — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The skill set that lets you be alone in your pyjamas for two years writing a book is not the same skill… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
My writers on 'Liv And Maddie' have started a running joke to try and sneak as many 'literally's into the script as… — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there.… — Peter Gould Copy Share Image
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives… — Joan Frank Copy Share Image
I'm very bad at delegating writing responsibilities, because I've never been able to do it; I've never had any help or looked… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
“Most leadership writing today advises us on how to prosper within the system. I believe real leadership is about transforming the system.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image