I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries. — Charles S. Dutton Copy Share Image
I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly… — Jeff Noon Copy Share Image
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I… — John Green Copy Share Image
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means… — David Simon Copy Share Image
We're at the end of long cycle that began in 1945, loading the economy with debt. We're not going to be able… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
The 250-page outline for American Tabloid. The books are so dense. They're so complex, you cannot write like I write off the… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. I'm moonlighting on television. I never made any pretensions to that. As much as I like being on 'Real… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different. — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad.… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Sandeep Jauhar is a compelling storyteller, and Doctored gives us a fantastic tour through the seedy underworld of American medicine. — Lisa Sanders Copy Share Image
“We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
It is amazing when you try and write songs without an instrument. It kind of forces the melody to be honed it.… — Graham Colton Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
Half of these dudes are hating on you because they're in their one-bedroom apartment writing on their MacBook Air. You can't take… — Nav Copy Share Image
I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things… — Jon Secada Copy Share Image
I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great… — Matt Lauria Copy Share Image
I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint. — Pele Copy Share Image
I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't… — Eminem Copy Share Image
“Writing is hard…Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals… — Ariana Grande Copy Share Image
Audiences want to watch heroine-oriented films, and even writers are writing scripts for women. I am very happy to see this change. — Sridevi Copy Share Image
“The greatest thing about being a writer is the fact you never have to learn lines - you get to write them! ” — Neill Bartlett Copy Share Image
“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I am sorry this became, a poem I beg you, please do not think as blame Trust me as you trust god… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
