If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing,… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I saw my father writing songs and he would include me in the process when I was little so that kind of… — Pedro Capo Copy Share Image
Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I just want to be a free writer. I think I am serving my country and my people by providing an independent… — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“I'm 68 years old, and somebody asked if I'm retired. I told him, "No, I'll still be writing long after I'm dead.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily -… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
. I used to advise writers to just write their books and it will find a home, and suddenly that didn't seem… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself.… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics,… — Christian Kane Copy Share Image
If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes… — Emerson Spartz Copy Share Image
Wanting to know all kinds of things is perfect for novelists, because novelists are generalists. We're not specialists in anything, except, hopefully,… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
So many people - DPs, writers, and the assistants that go on to be directors and writers - come from the School… — John David Washington Copy Share Image
While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap… — Raftaar Copy Share Image
What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has… — Akiva Goldsman Copy Share Image
Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically. — James Herriot Copy Share Image
I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next.… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I write about everything that happens in my life, whether or not the songs actually are released or not. — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human. — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
“The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.” — Susan Larson Copy Share Image
If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
