If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“...ultimately I found my community by pursuing what I loved: writing, acting, art, coffeehouses.” — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing! — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“Nick had cared about the story; Cath hadn’t. She’d cared about the writing. About the magic third thing that lived between them… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“I fail remarkably. I write Eye when I mean Tooth. I write Fornicate when I mean Caress. I write Wine when I… — Mary Maclane Copy Share Image
It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors,… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
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“No one should go into debt to study creative writing. It’s simply not worth it. This is not medical school.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
When the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all… — Brendan Fletcher Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
“The writer is a secret criminal. How? First because writing tries to undertake the journey toward strange sources of art that are… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because life, as Pablo Picasso averred, 'is a very bad novel', it has to be reworked through the writers' suffering into something… — Cirilo F. Bautista Copy Share Image
I'm friends with a lot of writers and so many of them say how much they hate signings and how they leave… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
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