I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the… — Drake Bell Copy Share Image
I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
It's a different world: when I'm writing 'Toast,' I've got one foot in 1974 and one foot in the modern day, because… — Matt Berry Copy Share Image
I love Crews, but had been writing a long time before I knew of him. I learned of him because a friend… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The thing is not to write what no one else has written but to write what only you could have written.' I… — Nam Le Copy Share Image
The original series of Watchmen is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC's reasons… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
No one should think he can quickly dispose of questions posed here offhandedly. It was precisely because writers were in the habit… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“This does not in any way close the argument for the development of African languages by the intervention of writers and governments.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I was just interested in directing. So I just kept having a go at trying to write little scripts and get things… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area.… — Jo Bonner Copy Share Image
Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic"… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“This is not a book of writing advice. It’s not here to help make you a better writer. Rather, it’s here to… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“then sit down and write or stand up and write but write no matter what the other people are doing, no matter… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore. — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within… — James Otis Copy Share Image
You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians. — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. I'm naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don't think I do it well. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies.… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
I don't end up writing songs in my journals, but I'm sure that my ability to write songs has been helped by… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
