The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“The imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“An author's job isn't to just write books, but to give hope and inspiration to the lost.” — Rowan K. Lake Jr Copy Share Image
I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of music in general, so writing is something I enjoy all the way around. I could write rap… — 3 Doors Down Copy Share Image
In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective. — Willy Mason Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there is no chemistry between writer and reader, so - give up. Not all books are meant to be read.” — My mother Copy Share Image
No creator in modern times is going to stick around with a concept for 20 years. There are simply too many alternatives… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
“... there's a hormone secreted into the bloodstream of most writers that makes them hate their own work while they are doing… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
“Anyway, my writer gang: they kind of did their comedy apprenticeship with me and, during that period, when they were young and… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good.… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I could always write in a wide variety. My moods change same as reader's moods change. I really do love writing the… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writing overtly autobiographical songs. I would rather explore interesting stories. I like the idea of the songs being… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
In that way, any world you create will become real. The reader makes it so. The reader becomes implicated in the creation… — Pinckney Benedict Copy Share Image
“Who Am I? I’m a creator, a visionary, a poet. I approach the world with the eyes of an artist, the ears… — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money. — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story. — Zoey Deutch Copy Share Image
I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Writing limericks gives us a playground, a release from these conventions. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right. — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing. — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
