Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. — Mary Astor Copy Share Image
“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.” — Matt Forbeck Copy Share Image
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I binge-watched this show 'Damages.' Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
We're always open to working with other writers, producers, and contributors for channelAPA. In hindsight, the goal is to develop our content… — Steve Nguyen Copy Share Image
As I've got older, I've got into doing much more stand-up, and much more writing and directing, and so there's been this… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate… — Gary Cherone Copy Share Image
In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
I dont want to write a book; I dont want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing… — Patti Hansen Copy Share Image
“Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
“Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I get to play with pop music and mix up the style. It's fun to play with party music and nice to… — Nomi Ruiz Copy Share Image
After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn't call myself Orthodox anymore. It's so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
“Writers don't make peace with their past… They preserve the crumbs and weave stories around them” — Gaurav Sharma Copy Share Image
When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid. — Sean Durkin Copy Share Image
I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself. — Joe Pasternak Copy Share Image
Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think. — Darcy O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
