I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality. — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I… — Ellen Greene Copy Share Image
You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love… — Chris Terrio Copy Share Image
I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act? — Victoria Jackson Copy Share Image
For myself, I feel more natural writing stories or novels than writing plays. I feel more like myself, like I can express… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Which is mightily ironic since one of the most common criticisms of American women novelists (it's a load of crap but it… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I have spent the last 30 years forming the religious right. I write a letter every week and send a newspaper every… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say,… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter. — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Get your passion on the paper. Detach from the outcome. Forget about whether it's going to get published. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] ... the writing was good ... but it was really kind of… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why… — Kimberly Black Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself. — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
I knew how to write like an academic, so I knew how to write academic papers and essays and things. But the… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person… — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about… — Jerry Harrison Copy Share Image
You can never predict success. You can never predict another person liking what you are doing. But if you are an interesting… — Sudha Kongara Copy Share Image
Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and… — Morley Callaghan Copy Share Image
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