I had written four scripts before I wrote Recount. Each one progressed my career a little bit, but I didn't make a… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
I've written six seasons of a TV show with great help from an incredible staff of writers and other collaborators, but I… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature… — Novalis Copy Share Image
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
What I had thought were signs of a broken educational system - the seemingly random placement of commas, the spastic syntax, the… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
A lot of times, I'll have a goal, I'll start writing, and I'll end up in some far off place, which is… — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really… — Geoff Zanelli Copy Share Image
You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something .… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all… — Misty Edwards Copy Share Image
When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I would say, A, you can't really teach anyone how to write good characters, because it's something you have to teach yourself… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history,… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we dream of things that we've always wanted--of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it...and… — Cassandra Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Writing is so much more problematic than drawing, full of moral pitfalls, ambiguity, public responsibility. If you record a day of your… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“When Kafka allows a friend to understand that he writes because otherwise he would go mad, he knows that writing is madness… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
“Why do you think I'm obsessed with this idea of giving the world an alphabet-soup enema?' (This was our code language for… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because… — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Every writer on this planet THINKS he is a great writer (why waste your entire life writing when you believe you are… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
