“Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.” — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share Image
I don't care what any writer says about me ... I just want to play my game. — Miguel Tejada Copy Share Image
I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Don’t write yourself off. If you don’t believe in yourself, you won’t be able to function.” — David Niven Copy Share Image
“There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer.” — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you… — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers,… — Eva Marie Saint Copy Share Image
I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Writing songs about how I feel has always been easy and fun for me, and I think the business side of music… — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
The last thing in the world I want to do is write something in memory of Walter Mischel. I still can't quite… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“Another reason Hawthorne set his story in the past (in lies) was 'cause he couldn't say directly all the wild things he… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“I write now what 15 years past I would still not have thought possible to write: that if today I were given… — Clara Claiborne Park Copy Share Image
Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I,… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image