Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully... — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere. — Yaphet Kotto Copy Share Image
“You might have written. Every bit of your daily life interests me. I wrote this day fortnight but it was returned. Tampered… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“I thought it had a very compelling opening, and after a couple of pages, I had that feeling of 'I'm in good… — Robert Child Copy Share Image
Why such a young beautiful girl like you would want to waste her time partying so much. I could only think of… — Jade Copy Share Image
“It shouldn’t surprise you, then, that notes written by internists read like novellas (ones in which we’re paid by the word), while… — Robert Wachter Copy Share Image
I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You can’t replace what’s on it,” Tucker interrupted. “I’m a writer, remember? My whole life’s work in on that laptop. I’m not… — Geoffrey Knight Copy Share Image
“Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way,… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, the romance is always the most important thing to me, but I really love adding in slices of real… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Some people work to live, and other people live to work. Then some people, like me, are both unemployed and alive (at… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
As an actress, you're living something through the duration of the play and its geography. I've always seen writing the same way.… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human. — ZZ Packer Copy Share Image
An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law… — Ruth First Copy Share Image
“If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
I write all the time. The wonderful thing about having a cell phone is that if I get an idea, I knock… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I actually chose to do 'X-Men' because I'm working with Simon Kinberg, who's also a first-time filmmaker who I met on 'The… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
There are some dried flowers found in between the pages of your books.. you've done a lot of saving, haven't you? — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be… — Maluma Copy Share Image
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
