“When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over. from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton ” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
I spent a year storyboarding and writing on a show called 'The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack' for Cartoon Network, which really taught… — Pendleton Ward Copy Share Image
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist.… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things,… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think I would have been a lot more miserable and discovered a lot less of things I liked if I hadn't… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
“You are an author, a public figure. You are going to be judged no matter what you write, so live your life… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and… — Maria Lenhart Copy Share Image
The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
I like to apply storytelling methods and techniques to try to frame the story in an interesting way, but you can never… — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would… — Harry Styles Copy Share Image
I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about. — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
“The quintessential thing to remember is no matter how good of a writer and storyteller you are, you are going to piss… — K.H. Koehler Copy Share Image
Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains.… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no… — Lisa Loomer Copy Share Image
I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“When I was young, I thought that I would live my life as freely as the writers and artists I took as… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs. — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline. — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).” — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes. — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
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