That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
When you're writing a screenplay, it's like you're dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for.… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Fynn disguise nobody but Fynn. At the time of writing I have known him for a couple of years. But there is… — Vernon Sproxton Copy Share Image
I began as a poet, moved to short fiction, then to novel writing, and, for the past twelve years, back to stories.… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
I have little weird things that aren't really specific but are just kind of odd. I write my 5's backwards, and I… — Christian Serratos Copy Share Image
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I loved the writing process. I would love to write more. And I'd like to do a roundtable, like 'The View' or… — Andi Dorfman Copy Share Image
Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me,… — Ron White Copy Share Image
“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
That is the thing about being a writer; your subject matter may not stay your subject matter if you break their trust… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas,… — Horace Copy Share Image
I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing. — Dreezy Copy Share Image
Sitcom writing is difficult because it's not just about writing jokes - there's a very fine balance between characters, plot, and comedy,… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think. — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot… — Wendy C. Ortiz Copy Share Image
My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
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