When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen… — George Seaton Copy Share Image
Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I'm writing a book called 'The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus' about the maths of Christmas: how to set up a secret… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old.… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
I can't become naked for everybody. It's never going to be possible for the person to write the whole story completely, so… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
“All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell. Long after we are gone, our words will be all… — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“All words are written in the same ink, 'flower' and 'power,' say, are much the same, and though I might write 'blood,… — Philippe Jaccottet Copy Share Image
Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship,… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary… — Will Self Copy Share Image
If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
For 'The Big Wander,' I probably had ten different outlines before I made myself start writing. I would sleep on each one,… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
“You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise,… — H.P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer. — Ace Antonio Hall Copy Share Image
Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I was a born empiricist. I believed that writers were paid to pretend, and where appropriate should make use of the real… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true grit—sometimes harsh, sometimes funny,… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
