“Never give your opinion on someone's writing unless they ask sincerely, and never ask for someone's opinion unless you're sincere.” — Justin Alcala Copy Share Image
I'm an attorney when I'm not writing comics, and have been for years. That's a side of my life I don't always… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything… — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“F. Scott Fitzgerald was a great writer. He said that a person never experiences the same kind of love twice. That means… — Donna McDonald Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people think that I'm a humorist or comedy songwriter. I will never take offence, but I think… — CMAT Copy Share Image
In my 20s, I was a freelance writer with little money and living in a rabbit warren one-and-a-half-bedroom with a roommate. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
I've met Jon Glaser who has a show on Adult Swim call Delocated and he's the main writer we hired for the… — Joe Buck Copy Share Image
I'm writing a script with a friend. We'll write for a while and then procrastinate for long periods of time, play chess,… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
“There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it. — Nina Nastasia Copy Share Image
You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it,… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television. — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
“I felt I had to write down my observations about you in a book. And also for money, so you could eat… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else. — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I think I'm a good joke writer. I'm also very scared that the last joke I wrote is the last joke I'll… — Michelle Wolf Copy Share Image
If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want… — Patty Murray Copy Share Image
