“And because, most crazy of all, all that kindness, all that magnificence, was sitting there just because of his words” — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny… — Quentin Dupieux Copy Share Image
“Receptionist: How do you write women so well? Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.… — Mark Andrus Copy Share Image
Food is fun to write about because everybody has an opinion. Food is also fun to write about because it's a challenge.… — Lauren Collins Copy Share Image
Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing is that when you're feeling very scared about something and convinced that it… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
“He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn't good at anything else. He was not good at being… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“One’s left-brain controls your numerical skills, reasoning, writing, speech, scientific understanding, and right hand control. It is so paradoxical how we have… — Lee Vickers Copy Share Image
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
The notion of having your muse was not something that was built for women originally. That's not to say women don't have… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
I have a strong work ethic, yet I'm incredibly lazy as well. The problem with being a writer is that everything you… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am not fully forgiven until I allow God to write his new dream for my life on the blackboard of my… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
“Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
I think it's so scummy when 'friends' write tweets about each other, if you have a problem then be a real friend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make… — Leon Bridges Copy Share Image
Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
When in doubt, it is better to do the less conservative thing and to err on the side of the more colorful,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then. — Orianthi Copy Share Image
I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its… — George Will Copy Share Image
God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“This might sound a little nutty, but to write fiction is to live in an invented world with a set of imaginary… — April Lindner Copy Share Image
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in,… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image