Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Theres really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something… — Sonakshi Sinha Copy Share Image
I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not… — Graham Parker Copy Share Image
I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences… — Holly Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't put a lot of pressure on myself when I'm writing. It feels like if I come up with something good,… — Moby Copy Share Image
I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I don't really get into a writing routine until March or April, when I'll write a few hundred words a day, often… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
“She wasn't all that interested, as a reader, in the reader. She was still partial to that increasingly eclipsed entity: the writer.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I didn't like my first primary school in Leicester very much. As I was going home on my tricycle one day, I… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the… — George Boole Copy Share Image
It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I can write, boy, I can write. That's what I do. The trouble is that it's too bloody easy for people, that's… — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
At one point I had a very complicated plan to use the game of chess as a generating structure for writing. I… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
I don't think I did write any poems to fill narrative gaps. Not consciously, anyway. As much as possible, I try to… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
“Good fiction writers and poets possess a skill that few preachers have—they know how to expose longing. But preachers know how to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write… — Jonah Peretti Copy Share Image
My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“You write on the good days and you wright on the lousy days. Like a shark, you have to keep moving forward… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I like to write. I like to choose the right word, I like to write the right sentence. It's just like gardening… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If a philosophical writer cannot be followed, the difficulty of his subject can be placed only in mitigation of his offense, not… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The nuts and bolts of shooting a film and writing a film are still really difficult. But what makes it easier is… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
We don't ever write stuff individually and say, 'OK, this is gonna be the song.' We bring in ideas in their rawest… — Justin Chancellor Copy Share Image
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The success that I have in sitcoms comes from the fact that 60 percent of the writers are Jewish guys in their… — Sam Seder Copy Share Image
“The whole political mess, the universal squalor, the essential pettiness of mankind oppressed him and he’d submerged himself in work and writing… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
I like to write pop songs and the stuff I write is fairly poppy, so I thought maybe my lot in life… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
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