I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is. — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character… — Dominic Chianese Copy Share Image
I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
It's funny when you start writing an album and then recording - the songs begin to take on a spirit of their… — Matt Shultz Copy Share Image
“As a nonfiction writer you must get on the plane. If the subject interests you, go after it, even if it's in… — Meg Lukens Noonan Copy Share Image
Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“I strongly encourage you to find a place to think and to discipline yourself to pause and use it, because it has… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Topical-sketch writing were incredibly rational and well reasoned: don't do a joke if the subject doesn't deserve it. An ad hominem attack… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born… — Mac Davis Copy Share Image
Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I think then I write, give my thoughts a light, begin pondering about life. Break it down then roll up the lyrics,… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their… — R Z Sheppard Copy Share Image
The stories are being written by men, and it's men who are directing it. As long as that continues, you won't be… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
“…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“As Jane Austen once wrote in her diary, "I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on… — Jim Denney Copy Share Image
“A writer should be able to open a window or two and prompt others to see the world and themselves in a… — Barista Uno Copy Share Image
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I didn't have to keep a bloody journal. It's terribly boring keeping a journal anyway. I hate it. You spend more time… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones… — Ayokunle Falomo Copy Share Image
“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself,… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision.… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
People don't keep diary's for themselves, they keep them for other people, like a secret they don't want to tell, but they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I'm not one for writing names on my wrist when I play. Actually, I internalise a lot. But my brother and I… — Adam Elliott Copy Share Image