Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me. — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“My writing looks like it’s ten steps behind my mind, and racing to always catch up.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book. — Rob Machado Copy Share Image
For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People ask me all the time, "Where do your ideas come from?" So, to clear up this question...I keep my ideas inside… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
This Is Your Life And You Are The Author Of Your Story. If You're Stuck On The Same Page Just Remember That… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
“If you gotta scratch the itch, scratch it. Or, if you want to do away with the day job, scratch, itch or… — Deb E. Howell Copy Share Image
Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to… — Tana French Copy Share Image
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence. — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
I've always thought of myself as a catalyst. Look, it's not without its perils. Ann Coulter called me "learning disabled." The things… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
I wrote some weird magical realism stories that are probably on some hard drive somewhere, and if I ever uncover that hard… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
I recognized that a lot in my writing I'm trying to show both sides of the coin - the sour and sweet.… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
As a writer, you know what the purpose of the scene is. It really has nothing to do with the actor so… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
“I really think this kind of consensual cannibalism is such a perfect analogue for the reciprocal relationship between writer and reader, and… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all. — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm going to write films, star in films, direct films. Write records. Perform live. — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.” — Sean Wilsey Copy Share Image
