There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
I love acting, I love directing, I love writing, I love producing, I love creating. — Joivan Wade Copy Share Image
Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song. — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous. — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I… — Vanessa Amorosi Copy Share Image
Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all… — Kareem Mortimer Copy Share Image
I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I'll either repeat myself or say something completely different and… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I would say that I am proud of my performance from Cracker and I think a lot of that was due to… — Boti Bliss Copy Share Image
“The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by how much… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers so you can suddenly get a… — Alan Dale Copy Share Image
I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you… — Earl Long Copy Share Image
“Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I'm often quite gloomy about the prospects for the human future. But, although I have no competence to intervene directly in a… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one:… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“They are so beautiful: your words" she told me. And I said "No, you are!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people. — India Arie Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward. — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you. — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
