“Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In trying to cross over to the mainstream, some people stopped writing what they witnessed. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want. — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
It's always incredible though when you feel like the writer knows the character intimately and can see their life sprawling away outside… — Charlotte Ritchie Copy Share Image
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
It's just one of those things. When you're a wrestler you're thinking about one guy, yourself, your character and whatever guy it… — Ted DiBiase Sr Copy Share Image
We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all down— locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
“the past, writers on this subject have conjectured that the Antichrist might possibly bring back the French guillotine in town squares across… — John Price Copy Share Image
“The term 'role model' is so odious, but the truth is it's a very strong writer indeed who gets by without a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Especially as an independent director, when you're writing something on spec and you're trying to get it sold, you create this entire… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
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