Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have… — Moliere Copy Share Image
A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind;… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
“Behold the onset of my flinty tone. Along with so much else, a soft-tissue sarcoma can apparently drain the exultation from one's… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this. — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Jill Eisenstadt is a writer of many admirable gifts. Foremost among them are a sharp eye for people, a playful love of… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.' She looked paler, going through another depression, smoking… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
It's not hard for me to be honest with my fans because that's what I set out to do from the beginning… — Beatrice Miller Copy Share Image
What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
“I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers-… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
When you're writing about someone feeling so isolated and so lonely, when the making of it becomes collaborative, that's a special thing. — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create'… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?” — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence. — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can’t stop the lines in time, so I’m a… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I started to see this common theme with the songs that I was writing or co-writing, and it all had this really… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
