Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
With traditional school visits, I also get to speak with people who haven't read my books and talk about my writing process… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track… — Azgraybebly Josland Copy Share Image
Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
I was never interested in acting on film or in television, but I was always more inclined to writing and directing, and… — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever.… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“All writing is rubbish. People who try to free themselves from what is vague in order to state precisely whatever is going… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I always have been introspective, since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.” Charles… — Aaron Council Copy Share Image
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Life is like chapters in a book.. We can't erase what has been already written but we can write a better ending… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a story about my struggles with depression and mental health. It's an issue that needs to be talked… — Ginger Zee Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've been writing ever since I was a child: I used to give my English teacher extra homework and say, 'What do… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
“On the front cover of Newsweek reviews "A House for Mr. Biswas" as "a marvelous prose epic that matches the best 19th… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say,… — Zlatan Ibrahimovic Copy Share Image
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Lewis Carroll is the writer who taught me the sheer delight of falling through a 'looking-glass' of my own!” — Pamela Rose Copy Share Image
Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not. — E. L. James Copy Share Image
I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing or iron tools.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
