I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding… — Heenashree Khandelwal Copy Share Image
If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I was participating in acting and writing for other shows and I knew that eventually I wanted a sitcom of my own. — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Asked if he knew how important Stardust would be, Mitchell Parish said he did have a gut feeling that this was a… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
It's hard to hand a script to a director, there's no question about it. You've lived with these characters, you've started with… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
I think when you write every song on your album - it's like having eleven or twelve children. It's hard to say… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first… — John Green Copy Share Image
Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts,… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Writing comics? Still the best job in the world. I sit around all day making shit up and see it illustrated, in… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I was always writing - whether it's ideas, poems, whatever - because we spent so much time in the car traveling from… — Mickie James Copy Share Image
I was a die-hard, obsessed fan of Michael Jordan. I'd take his posters with me to away meets, I'd walk out on… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall.… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The thing about doing mashups and covers is it's great, but a part of you never gets to really showcase what your… — Vidya Vox Copy Share Image
If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could… — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
