“...maybe writing doesn't require sacrifice. Maybe it's a gift to experience emotions through our brushes, ink, and paper. I wrote out sorrow,… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“The human mind is itself a miraculous machine. I am writing right now, but I have no idea how this is happening.… — Evan Mandery Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the… — John Banville Copy Share Image
L.A. ispolluted. It's overpopulated. But it is very much home. It was inevitable for me, the moving back. I was living in… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day,… — William James Copy Share Image
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I always try to stick to the script because I want to respect the writers, and I want to respect the director.… — Rob Riggle Copy Share Image
Just by default, because I don't have kids on my bus, I'm putting the studio on my bus. Where everybody else is… — Tony Kanal Copy Share Image
“There seems little or no hope for the adult writer who produces sentences like these: "Her cheeks were thick and smooth and… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot… — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize… — Frank Spotnitz Copy Share Image
I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a… — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing:… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
“I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. But, and that is the greatest question,… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
Teachers have been heroes to me, as well as artists and writers, and I'm honored to be among their ranks. There is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
There will be this mix of people like me who write for major national newspapers and amateur critics, practitioner critics, whose primary… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“Read good writing, and don’t live in the present. Live in the deep past, with the language of the Koran or the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I know about an actual murder over a watch, it's in all the newspapers now. If a writer had invented it, the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Besides my fast and slooow songs, I further divide my work into three main song types: the ballad or story song, the… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is a very big difference between American and British travel journalism, and that's this whole business of the assisted or freebie… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“Biblical inspiration may be defined as God’s superintending of the human authors so that, using their own individual personalities and even their… — Ron Rhodes Copy Share Image
The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Fiction writing is art. It therefore, has few mathematical or scientific limits to its evolution. The writer must always push forward, experiment,… — Ron Gavalik Copy Share Image
Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
