I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to… — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not… — Avicii Copy Share Image
If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Cowriting is very personal. A great song is an honest song, so you have to be able to open up to the… — Liz Rose Copy Share Image
I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“One of my former students, recently tasked with the writing of bio-ethical guidelines for a teaching hospital in southern California, noted that… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I always try to stick to the script because I want to respect the writers, and I want to respect the director.… — Rob Riggle Copy Share Image
Every piece of writing I've done has been something where I feel like I need to get this out of me, whether… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story –… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper. — Lee Kelly Copy Share Image
'Talullah' is a movie I'm really proud of. Sian Heder is the director/writer, and I think she's extraordinarily talented. I think it… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
I mainly get my inspiration for writing from everyday situations and I come up with hypothetical scenarios and I can usually write… — Thomston Copy Share Image
A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.'… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Being a writer of 'literary fiction' means going on and on about something long after the reader has gotten the idea. ...Dan… — Dan Ahearn Copy Share Image
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things,… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it. — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I have time, I write other things. I'm working on a book, I paint, I sculpt, I play with my dog,… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
I just write the stuff that comes out of me, and then after that, I try to get it made. But I… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
