I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm willing to write a check for $10,000 if someone can bring to me what I fell is ruining thousands of lives,… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I've been working with a lot of people out in Hollywood on writing scripts, screenplays, directing, producing, and making music. — Enzo Amore Copy Share Image
A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
“The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Joe Walsh is somebody who... he's a writer, obviously, and he's a singer-songwriter, whatever, but at the end of the day, when… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
When you have this long of a run [in The Big Bang Theory], you don't have to have something happen every episode.… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
There are so many actresses I want to write for. I see them, and I think, 'Why is she not playing that… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
I started doing community theater when I was seven and I think the intent was just expression. When you're a musician, you… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation. — Zachary Lazar Copy Share Image
I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that,… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I… — David Yates Copy Share Image
“Life is a blank book. Write about what you want to see happen and then step back – and experience what you’ve… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the… — Edward Topsell Copy Share Image
I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together.… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
I didn't know if I could write. I was writing all these songs at home and was like, 'Maybe I can write?' — Morgan Wallen Copy Share Image
When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the… — David Bryan Copy Share Image
I think that's what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going… — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
I would say, you can never do enough gigs and you can never do enough songs. Make sure that every opportunity you… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
“The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
If you're writing a show about modern media moguls, Rupert Murdoch and his family are an incredibly important model and some of… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
All I am doing every day is soaking in everything - I'm like a sponge, from all these award-winning directors, writers, and… — Cailee Spaeny Copy Share Image
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image