If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws. — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner. — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
“Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable. — Michael Shanks Copy Share Image
Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with… — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
“We didn’t have AC or Cable TV. We had shade trees and storytellers. This is where my writing comes from.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Stop it now and take control. Write this on a card and pin it up where you can see it... MY THOUGHTS… — Peter A. Cohen Copy Share Image
I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
“For me it's hard to write about the nice trees and flowers and happy shit. It's a lot easier to write about… — Adam Gontier Copy Share Image
A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
“The financing option favoured by this writer would be to fund a basic income from the construction of sovereign wealth funds, along… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I used to write in high school. I loved the freedom. It's a solitary means of expression, where you can lock yourself… — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
“Most of my writing life, to be perfectly honest, is not freaky, old-timey, voodoo-style Big Magic. Most of my writing life consists… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's an easier task to imagine someone's interior world when you feel quite distanced from them. In the same way that I… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
I spoke to my father - my father's from Pakistan and he's also a lawyer - I said to him, "Well what… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“A childhood filled with adventures, happiness and unabated love. If only I could remember ...” — Lynda Fisher Copy Share Image
Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.' — John Sentamu Copy Share Image
When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are. — Keren Woodward Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing. — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer. — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader. — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work. — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
