When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know... When I wrote… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little… — Richard Brancatisano Copy Share Image
If you can write (and don't kid yourself that you can, if you can't) and you have ideas that are commercially viable… — Joel McIver Copy Share Image
Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been… — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm going to miss everything. It's been the most amazing and significant job of my life obviously and I'll always have… — Alyson Hannigan Copy Share Image
When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Right when I started getting solid was when I was offered a lot of writing work. And when The Ben Stiller Show… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“To write, for a lesbian, is to learn to take down the patriarchal posters in her room. It means learning to live… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation,… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
I love the way Damon Lindelof writes. It's almost like he was channeling me and he had my voice, even though the… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
There are things that are shadow sides of the creative energy that are negative and all that kind of stuff. The only… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“There is unspeakable yet entirely preventable suffering in this world. The job of journalists and writers engaged with global issues is to… — K. Lee Lerner Copy Share Image
If the federal constitution is to be construed so far in connection with the state constitutions, as to leave the trial by… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good,… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate:… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I can't write a piece of music in a void, I have to know what instrument I'm writing it for. In the… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
