If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap -… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a block. I’m… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. I spent… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I don't sit down with a goal of writing. I read books or magazines. I watch TV. I go to the doctor.… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
“The audience-- the book's actual cast-- quickly realized what had happened. The reason the movie dropped everything that made the novel real… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she… — Loretta H. Marion Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
I really enjoy just being an actor. It's fun to be surprised by someone else's writing and to collaborate in creating a… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
I avoid continuously writing or tweeting about ISIS, as it centres them in the narrative and we end up reacting to them… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master. — Deon Meyer Copy Share Image
My mom was a piano teacher and I grew up taking voice lessons since I was 9. I started off writing melodies… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
My actual writing process? I have to just love the beat before I even write on it. I can't force myself to… — Lil Nas X Copy Share Image
The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Often as a writer, you get your first draft out, and then you look and think, 'Now, what have I got here.'… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I was always cutting words. I even would write my jokes in my notebook. I still do this, almost like a poem. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Aquarius have a hard time expressing themselves and talking about their problems. But they can through writing, drawing, or music. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
