The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people. — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more… — David Tang Copy Share Image
Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I'm a planner, an organizer. I write things down because you can visually check them off and see progress. Writing things down… — Will Grier Copy Share Image
It's unusual when you get scripts not wanting to change things - I'm one of those actors who writers must hate as… — Denis Lawson Copy Share Image
“Letters...People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but… — Shiloh Fernandez Copy Share Image
What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
The most important thing for a writer to do is to write. It really doesn't matter what you write as long as… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited,… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta… — Dan Bern Copy Share Image
Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
