It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself. — Manika Copy Share Image
“Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who… — Lori Ann Lesko Copy Share Image
Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles, if I had to. The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
“I can't write poetry like you, but I can talk with nature... And when I come back... we put our beds side… — Bettina Brentano Copy Share Image
More and more, you're seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end… — Adele Copy Share Image
Gwendolen, from The Importance of Being Earnest I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I don't write for Christians. I write for people. I write so that if a Christian hears my music, they're going to… — Dominic Balli Copy Share Image
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest. — Sara Quin Copy Share Image
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an… — Horace Copy Share Image
A good actor just wants to deliver the writing to the audience who've paid that night. There's an agonising desire to get… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions. — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“I do not write feelings, emotions i do not write After that day on love anything i do not write My silence… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
My mistake, and it is one I deeply regret, is writing about the person I created in my mind to help me… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.” — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen. — John Hughes Copy Share Image
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors. — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
