I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is. — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen. — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
“Writers don't make peace with their past… They preserve the crumbs and weave stories around them” — Gaurav Sharma Copy Share Image
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The most common kind of zine is the personal zine, created by individuals reflecting on their everyday lives-confessional, sometimes mundane, containing even… — Mark Todd Copy Share Image
I spent years of being a ghost / Unsure of where home is anymore / I tell them I feel nothing /… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know… — Bailee Madison Copy Share Image
Respect the language in which you write. Be kind, develop good vocabulary, and be creative in writing beautiful sentences. Your prose should… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
With music that I write, I like to have in there something you can relate to, a way to share the experience. — Mike Romano Copy Share Image
If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out… — Isaac Brock Copy Share Image
You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her,… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
There are lots of similarities between being a writer and a lawyer: to tell a story to a jury, hold their attention,… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“How had it come about that these particular designs were chosen as our letters? Who decreed what sound would accompany each shape?… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
“On November 18 of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel'. Weeks ago he chose its title at random from… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
“I think you can write about what you know for about an hour and a half. Then you have to start bullshitting.… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“This ‘reality’ is so obviously unreal. It’s like bad screenplay writing. No matter how many times you see the same tired script… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
We kind of just got more mature and more realistic with what we're doing. We kinda said, "We quit our jobs and… — Jordan Buckley Copy Share Image
I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid. — Sean Durkin Copy Share Image
When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. — Mary Astor Copy Share Image
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.” — Matt Forbeck Copy Share Image
The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think. — Darcy O'Brien Copy Share Image
Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
