Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American. — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better. — James Franco Copy Share Image
What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another. — Irving Thalberg Copy Share Image
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself. — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.' — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“From The Red Sox Reader: "The Yankees may have always had the better players, but the Red Sox always had the better… — Dan Riley Copy Share Image
It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing… — Khalid Copy Share Image
The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
I've begun to recognize myself as a Catholic writer because my whole notion of the image, of symbol, of art and what… — Joyelle McSweeney Copy Share Image
The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to… — David Hare Copy Share Image
In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The great thing about television is that you get to tell, like with "The Walking Dead", 16 hours worth of character-driven storytelling… — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs.… — El DeBarge Copy Share Image
I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be in college towns or cities, and I'm… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically. — Troye Sivan Copy Share Image
“The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.” — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
