If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest. — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that. — Jody Hill Copy Share Image
“A true writer cuts their heart open and lets it bleed all over the page... ~Cynthia Batten” — Cynthia Batten Copy Share Image
TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing. — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats. — Eugen Weber Copy Share Image
I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually. — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat. — Mike White Copy Share Image
To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs… — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.' — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“I tell students, when in doubt, to title their story after the smallest concrete object in their story. I warn them off… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
“I want my writings to inspire and awaken. I have no interest in spinning silly tales for money. I want to fish… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
I think that the dark side of MFA programs is that they're generating more poets than the culture can absorb and there… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know,… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“The thought of the novelist that matters most is the thought that makes him a novelist. The thought of the novelist lies… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim… — Ezra Jack Keats Copy Share Image
