When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way… — Om Malik Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
“They paid people to write books!!! Until that moment I had a vague idea that books were produced in factories, like tires,… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to… — Will Self Copy Share Image
That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to… — Ketzel Levine Copy Share Image
“About novel Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott. Q: What does the title "Imperfect Birds" mean? It's a line from a poem by… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
After writing several Nutbrown Hare stories, I thought: what might happen when a little hare begins to explore the space around him?… — Sam McBratney Copy Share Image
John Wooden has been a vital force in the lives of many with his inspirational messages. He represents all the elements necessary… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.… — Austin Pendleton Copy Share Image
I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“what you write down sometimes leaves you forever, like old photographs left in the bright sun, fading to nothing but white. I” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all… — Angela Bettis Copy Share Image
Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn! — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I always feel like my writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it). — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually… — John Green Copy Share Image
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
