“But the writing was clever. The facts, if not true, were well invented; the arguments, if not logical, were seductive. The” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my… — Gabrielle Aplin Copy Share Image
“Everyone was driven to write.It was Gorky's fault--he had announced that "literature should be written by working people",and showed with his own… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together.… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“That’s writing, I suppose—dozens of decisions about what’s in, what’s out, what goes with what, what’s clever but not honest, what’s so… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Writing for videogames is really unique. You learn all the rules of writing, but there's a whole other set of rules for… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Having gone through the [Marvel] writer program, I knew Black Panther was in the pipeline and I knew they were big fans… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
Stark looks at me and gives a tired smile. He pats the recliner, motioning for me to come over and sit down.… — Jade Copy Share Image
I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like,… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
“I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet," scoffed Marilla. "You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste… — L. M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don’t… — Sacha Guitry Copy Share Image
All women are strong, and we don't need to write stronger female roles; what we need to start writing is real women… — Ella Purnell Copy Share Image
“A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap… — Ice T Copy Share Image
“An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose. — Laurie Alberts Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you. — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
In a moment, when I'm ready, I will turn off this computer and that will be it. This letter will be finished.… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Yesterday was Chinese New Year. It's the Year of the Rabbit. And here's how dumb I am. I'm still writing the Year… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'Black Panther,' on one level, I was angry because DC would never let me write 'Batman,' so I… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears… — Lights Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all… — Eric Barker Copy Share Image
“Writing is too goddamned hard for me to think about a soul in teh world ... I don't think about a soul,… — Ernest J. Gaines Copy Share Image
“Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
![“More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together. I felt better about the material, and found myself writing a letter from Bridget to her son: explaining the original story of how he came to be, from his own Mum.” quote by Helen Fielding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/013/helen-fielding-2564_baby_more-than-two-years-after-mad-about-the_2981567.png)
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