My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either. — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now. — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
“Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer. — Will Self Copy Share Image
I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
I had been a zealous writer of journals my whole life, and beginning my newspaper column gave me a huge sense of… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
I think the way I write is kind of naturally rhythmic. If there's anything of my own in my writing, I think… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze. — Giovannino Guareschi Copy Share Image
We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to… — Bill Harley Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do.… — El-P Copy Share Image
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“In writing anything to you, I always end up frustrated with the results. One reason for that is because I don't like… — Bill Shapiro Copy Share Image
I write about one of my bills that says pharmacists cannot be doctors. They cannot determine what they will or will not… — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
“Books. The more I thought about how to stop and get myself back together as one sane, whole person, the more I… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
