My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it,… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered,… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Eventually, as my books became best-sellers, the nickels pile up and one day I was offered a substantial four-book deal that was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
I guess there are a lot of writers out there who get really inspired when they're depressed. I can't write about being… — El-P Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else. — Tana French Copy Share Image
I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
The way I write, I need to tell the true story. I can't just make a story up. So I have to… — Giveon Copy Share Image
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you… — Liam Gallagher Copy Share Image
I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“It didn't matter to her whether she'd written anything brilliant. It just felt good to be able to write again.” — Alexandra Monir Copy Share Image
There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“i write because if i did not, i would surely go mad. but perhaps being a little bit mad is why i… — Drunk-On-Writing Copy Share Image
“ If there is a subject that is my own, my dear Ellen, as a writer I mean, it is the persistent… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
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Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T.… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about. — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image