“The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule… — Elizabeth J. Kolodziej Copy Share Image
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“Always write with passion. Think of writing as a way of bringing all your hopes, dreams, and thoughts to life.” — Cherlina Works Copy Share Image
There isn't a difference between how I feel in the world and how I feel as a musician, or someone who writes.… — Wesley Eisold Copy Share Image
“The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Expect to be disgusted by your own early work. If writing is your vocation, if you hope that it might be your… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent. — Tom Robinson Copy Share Image
I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized. — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
“Writing a story is like ruling the world. Except it's even better. How many rulers out there that you know can tell… — VanillaCreamPie8888 Copy Share Image
I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of… — Ethan A. Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can… — Taylor Dane Copy Share Image
Glen Campbell told me, 'Stay out of the way of a good song.' I think it's true. If a song's good, don't… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring… — Noah Lukeman Copy Share Image
After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in… — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from… — Odeya Rush Copy Share Image
It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“I think ‘slow writing’ is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the ‘slow food’ movement. Anxiety… — Rosaleen Love Copy Share Image
