During the 2016 campaign, editors and bookers at media outlets claimed they couldn't find any good writers or TV pundits to discuss… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
One of my favorite rules of writing: stop whenever it's feeling really good so you have something to look forward to the… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, Let's just write some scary music. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
We try to not write stories based on reaction. We try to write them based on character integrity as we understand it… — Peter Paige Copy Share Image
Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I could be inspired by something I see or something I hear and write down or send to a friend or a… — Hailee Steinfeld Copy Share Image
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“If they were afloat on the sea, and blind in the fog — they didn’t even know what direction they should turn… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“By the time these stories were written, six decades had passed since the crucifixion. In that time, the evangelists had heard just… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“The less he sees of other writers the more of a writer he will ultimately become. When he sees scarcely anyone except… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I… — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone… — Orville Prescott Copy Share Image
Though a fine writer, Scott Spencer will forever be associated with a cheesy, sentimental film starring the vapid box-office draw Brooke Shields. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the… — NeNe Leakes Copy Share Image
Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self. — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Actually the writer is the most important part of the filmmaking process. That's why I never hesitate in giving credit to a… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
