I'm writing a book, and there's not even space for a desk in our home. So I spent my hard-earned book money… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The writers against religion, while they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. .… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I can't recall a story that played out exactly as I'd expected it to. That's one of the thrills of journalism -… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When you wrote a song way back in the day, you were writing material to play live. And you would buy the… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
If you really hate me, you should at least have the courtesy to take out a piece of paper and write it… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book… — Matthew Reilly Copy Share Image
Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in… — Maya Rudolph Copy Share Image
I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
A lot of writers will take a character at the beginning of a story. And that character will stay the same all… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with… — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I think my interviews were much better than what some of the writers wrote. I just wanted the truth out. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
A lot of screenwriters write certain characters, certain parts, with actors in mind. I don't really tend to do that. I describe… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
“Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness—when a glorious idea comes to mind, and when a last page has been written and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable. — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
