One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Like once we picked Jim Norton as the head of security, the writing flows pretty easily. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its… — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
If I was switched from whatever I'm doing, and I was, for some reason, made the chief football writer in any newspaper,… — Steve Bunce Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
That man has a spiritual body is evidenced by the account . . . given in the writings of Moses that man… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I'm really proud to be a woman making music. Nothing makes me happier than when other women approach me at shows and… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested… — Gregory Peck Copy Share Image
“I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to… — Rachel Copy Share Image
Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of… — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.” — Hillary Frank Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
“Writing is a passion, to write you simply have to just let it flow and get on with it!” — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool! — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
There's not a single NFL writer in the country who could diagram a play for Bill Belichick. — Colin Cowherd Copy Share Image
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?" — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in. — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
