With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
If people say Rani Mukerji recommended me, than I have no issue. If someone says that, then I enjoy that kind of… — Prithviraj Sukumaran Copy Share Image
I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've gone to readings to see authors after meeting them on Twitter. And while there, I've found myself sitting next to still… — John Searles Copy Share Image
Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and… — Gary Dell'Abate Copy Share Image
On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already.… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
I've always had this interest in sibling relationships because I don't have any siblings. I'm completely a product of the one-child policy… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“It is true that too much legal writing is obfuscatory, wordy, dense and stilted. Many lawyers seem to believe that sounding like… — Charles M. Fox Copy Share Image
I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this:… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or,… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She met a boy and called him Stargazer because instead of poems he recited the names of constellations. He said the freckles… — Alaska Gold Copy Share Image
I think the primary gift of the animal is offered to writer and non-writer alike; they teach us about love, or attunement,… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Setiap gerak langkah adalah ejaan Setiap ejaan membentuk ayat Maka bagi yang bijak... tak perlu mengayat walaupun sepatah kata/ ayat.” — AD Rahman Ahmad Copy Share Image
“You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Some of our finest writers, organizers, artists, and scholars in the 60s as well as today, have been lesbian and gay, and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
I think there's sort of an extra oomph with the younger people coming up. They're writing. They're communicating. They're sharing, and they… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
The way that I've always viewed my career, I always do what comes to me. I don't write forty songs per album,… — Rick DeJesus Copy Share Image
People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Write something and leave it aside so you've practically forgotten it as much as possible, a month or so, then come back… — Christine Leunens Copy Share Image
I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all. — Todd Snider Copy Share Image
“so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos... So ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
At the end, we can embrace and love whatever we want of an author's work. But we also can't ignore a writer's… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again! — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
