A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
I believe in hiring people to do their jobs.I want to hire an editor.They say you make a movie three times: when… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Every now and then, a writer emerges who just gets better and better. These are the really exciting ones to encounter. Their… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
When you are writing a spoken word poem, the tools you're working with are your voice, your body, how it's going to… — Phil Kay Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was writing a lot. I dealt with my high school angst by writing short plays… — Susanna Fogel Copy Share Image
“He did not remember when he began to regard the heap of books on his desk with boredom and dread, or when… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I was talking to one of the writers about our target audience, and he was insulted that I used that term. But… — Michael Bay Copy Share Image
Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young. — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen. Yes it is this very… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I've always found the Irish really attractive-they make wonderful writers and sexy firefighters, and if they didn't like the Red Socks they'd… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
“Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a character’s predicament, but never to solve his problems.” — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in… — Catie Curtis Copy Share Image
We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free… — Rickey Medlocke Copy Share Image
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty deep guy. I'm not a tough guy at all. People think I give this persona that I'm thick-skinned, but… — Thomas Grennan Copy Share Image
As a writer, I find that a good way of evolving a character is through an examination of his or her defining… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
