And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another. — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications;… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
I notice that I only publish once every four years. It takes a couple of years to write a book and then,… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“Maybe the real problem wasn’t that she had nothing to write about, but that she had too much. Maybe she wasn’t afraid… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of crafts in my day. I learned how to do pottery, yoga... and I just wanted to share… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
We write constantly. It's nice to have more to pick from and we pitch songs to other artists, so it's not always… — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image
There's no reason for somebody who's good at writing rap to be good at freestyling. They're different parts of your brain. You… — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
“I don’t recall the moment when I officially became a storyteller—a talented liar—but here I must quote Simon Ortiz, the Acoma Pueblo… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online. — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
I didn't pretend that I was good at writing music, so I wrote terrible music, intentionally. As time went on, the terrible… — C418 Copy Share Image
To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy… — Jay Heinrichs Copy Share Image
“For many writers the goal is a thousand words a day. For me, just give me one thought, and the words will… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer. — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“I want to live where irony meets kindness, where daring meets bullshit, where everything that failed meets the hope that something might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 'West Wing' writers room would not have come up with the idea of running a presidential campaign in which an African-American… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
