I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying. — Jon Turteltaub Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub,… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
Back in the day it was like, I got a great record from a great producer and writer and it's a hit… — Omarion Copy Share Image
Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write,… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
It's not often you find yourself writing about a game that you haven't seen one kick of. But it's not often that… — Phil Cornwell Copy Share Image
We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever. — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say. — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others. — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
My work as an actor is limited by the voice of the director and the writing. — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories. — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
Beauty is not perfection; life is not without suffering; and a piece of writing can never be flawless. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want. — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Maybe we're not the most faithful heroes, but maybe at least we can describe them.” — HAZEM ABDELMOWLA Copy Share Image
