If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. — Dianna Daniels Booher Copy Share Image
“Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working' .” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write. — David Means Copy Share Image
You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a… — Heather Armstrong Copy Share Image
It rarely happens that I get to work again with the same director. I had such a wonderful time on Antichrist with… — Charlotte Gainsbourg Copy Share Image
“What a joke it is to read or hear—as I have read or heard more times than I can count—that writers ‘see… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had mixed… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Who was Hitler?' I said. Tyrena smiled slightly. 'An Old Earth politician who did some writing.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When I finally finished writing 'Sisters,' I started getting hired for lots of rewrites. — Paula Pell Copy Share Image
I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller. — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
I write songs. I perform. I play the guitar. I play the keyboard. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted. — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
