Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness.… — Mike Carey & Peter Gross Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make… — Nicole Christie Copy Share Image
I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
“To this day I have a profound mistrust of the word processor. I have to type it or write it first, screen… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
“You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
“What does the story mean, then?” “It means what you want it to mean,” Hoid said. “The purpose of a storyteller is… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
There's a great temptation to throw things in, as you put it, that you think are neat, or that you have a… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
“ It's a world full of terror and beauty (here her writing became so small Meggie could hardly make it out) and… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Teachers need to sit with their journal and write in the voice of that teenager. Write and remember. That’s who we teach!” — Penny Kittle Copy Share Image
As I was writing 'Insidious 3' I started to fall in love with the characters and the story. I became very possessive… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy for me, either… — Dominique Dawes Copy Share Image
No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
“The good news about self publishing is you get to do everything yourself. The bad news about self publishing is you get… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend. — Michael McMillian Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely… — Summer Glau Copy Share Image
“Writing to you is like some embarrassing remake of Waiting For Godot. Why don't you jerk off on paper in my direction,… — Maryse Holder Copy Share Image
I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it.… — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
