Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
There is this split between the Haiti of before the earthquake and the Haiti of after the earthquake. So when I'm writing… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“We have a moment of pure creative inspiration — writing or drawing or sculpting — and it feels exhilarating in the moment.… — Courtney Martin Copy Share Image
I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
“Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I was a bit of an accident really - I certainly didn't set out to write a cookbook or three. I didn't… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
Perhaps if there is anything remotely interesting about my writing style, it is this: more often than not I have no idea… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me.… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been influenced by so many different writers along the way - from Charles Dickens, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, John D. McDonald,… — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing; voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All… — Naveed Saleh Copy Share Image
The creative process requires a period of boredom, of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
“It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I started off by doing everything myself, driving the truck, going to the woodshop, buying the wood, designing the furniture, cutting it… — David Linley Copy Share Image
Science was always a passion, but I also loved 'Monty Python' and 'The Young Ones,' and I discovered the Footlights comedy club… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
I have a really good relationship with my label and with people I've worked with since I was younger. I've always had… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I write for people who aren't Christians. I write for non, new, and nominal Christians who are curious about the Bible and… — Stephen M. Miller Copy Share Image
I have to say that it's fun to write for young girls, and it's exciting to know that we're influencing them and… — Nikki Glaser Copy Share Image
“It is clear from the writings of our founding fathers that they disagreed with such excessive taxation to redistribute wealth. In the… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
