Sound judgment is the ground of writing well. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
I went to USC and got my first break writing for a kids' show called 'Pepper Ann.' — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
Neal Shusterman is a phenomenal writer, he's known for his young-adult books. — Cherie Currie Copy Share Image
“Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience.… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
“What thrives online is not the writing that reflects anything close to the reality in which you and I live. Nor does… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book… — Michael Nyqvist Copy Share Image
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
“An elegantly crafted novel, "The Reluctant First Lady" clearly documents author Venita Ellick as an exceptionally accomplished writer able to skillfully weave… — Midwest Book Review August 2013 Copy Share Image
The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“I cannot decide whether it is an illness or a sin, the need to write things down and fix the flowing world… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years,… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“ What is the trick for writing dialogue? That you are not running a wiretap for the FBI. I used to have… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
