Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.” — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
“Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don’t forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.” — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Write down your Dream or story; create your own unique Values, Believe in them, and use them to make all decisions; Dare… — Bill Capodagli Copy Share Image
I'd love to branch out but I have absolutely no interest in romance. I just don't. The thought of trying to write… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I wasn't the only person out there writing about pop culture and race, but I stayed true to my voice, and people… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I first came over to the States, I started writing, I think, as a way to help myself learn English. I… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I'm in love with artists that are really difficult to cover or to copy. You can only try to copy them, but… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
As a stand-up, as a storyteller, as an improviser, I've done thousands of shows. They allow me to work out new material… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
"Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know… — Harriet Monroe Copy Share Image
You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“To write requires passionate love of someone or something - even if it is merely self.” — Cathryn Louis Copy Share Image
“It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. Read more at” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
As a ghost writer, many words I have written have been for someone else. — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
