Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it;… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?,"… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting,… — Mike D Copy Share Image
I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you… — Yann Tiersen Copy Share Image
“Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The only distinguishing characteristic of a literature professor at the millennium was that he or she wrote about other people's writing. Apart… — James Hynes Copy Share Image
Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Most fledgling and mid-list writers are lucky to be offered a 4-figure sum and are not only expected to deliver copy that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The visual world has blown up, the world of writing has blown up; there's so much text online. Anyone and everyone can… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
Whether it's theatre or TV or film, you're hoping you're going to bump into a writer that's got a bit of honour… — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting… — John Michael McDonagh Copy Share Image
My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published. — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as… — Shawn Mendes Copy Share Image
“Style is a sort of melody that comes into my sentences by itself. If a writer says what he has to say… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am learning something new everyday, be it learning piano or enrolling myself for online courses, reading, writing or doing yoga. — Radhika Madan Copy Share Image
I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer… — Yoshiki Copy Share Image
I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
“It should be a matter of honour on the Left to write at least as well, without redundancy or clutter, as its… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
