I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing. — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
“Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.” — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel. — Norman Podhoretz Copy Share Image
“Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.” — Kayla Rae Whitaker Copy Share Image
“If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
“All of these parallels between Mesoamerican and ancient western Eurasian writing testify to the underlying universality of human creativity.” — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
While writing, you are more interested in seeing what happens with you in the process, because all that writing is just you… — Oz Perkins Copy Share Image
Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting,… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Because lots of LGBTQ people are really smart, and there's so much really interesting reading that can be done, and so much… — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a… — John Green Copy Share Image
here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover… — Red Haircrow Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows me knows I can be a control freak with things I love doing. I love doing fashion and I… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want. — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“AND SO THE STORY ENDS, bracketed by two architects: Daedalus, who built the Minoan labyrinth, and Ventris, who found the thread that… — Margalit Fox Copy Share Image
You got to control your own destiny. You got to keep writin different stuff. Keep switchin up and never do the same… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
I believe writing is where it all begins; you can not make a film look different, you have to write it differently. — Rakshit Shetty Copy Share Image
I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like… — Sia Copy Share Image
He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great… — Bruce Forsyth Copy Share Image
I'm a big admirer of Daniel Woodrell for his beautiful, precise, sparse prose - I don't do succinct well, so I'm in… — Tana French Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
We should be able to write songs for a new album every six months. If you think about it, it's not a… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I don't know any jazz stuff. I don't know how to jam in that way. So jamming, for me, is writing a… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
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