“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all… — Nathan Bransford Copy Share Image
“The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The stories that I tell, the topics that I choose to write about, usually are suggested by something that I've done before. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Before we started shooting 'Homecoming,' we were in the writer's room for 'Mr. Robot.' I was also editing Season 3 of 'Mr.… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
“I show that I have understood a writer only when I can act in his spirit, when, without constricting his individuality, I… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day… — Leonard Wolf Copy Share Image
“I suppose it was the worst book any man has ever written. It was a colossal tome and faulty from start to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My drum parts are a song within the song; that's the way I look at writing my drum parts. They follow patterns,… — Vinnie Paul Copy Share Image
“It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My life wasn't always smooth sailing. Two members of my family were diagnosed with cancer, so I spent a lot of time… — Hannah Tinti Copy Share Image
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My face responds without authorization from my brain, so the resulting smile feels like the biggest, most unguarded, goofiest smile I’ve ever… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.'… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Someone misdirected you [...] Most writers in New York don't do much writing. They spend their time talking and drinking bootleg liquor.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don't know who to write to anymore... They've changed their souls, that's a way to be disloyal, to forget, to keep… — Céline Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix. — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them… — Boy George Copy Share Image
I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides. — Pamela Frankau Copy Share Image
You've got to give people an opportunity. But I also think that a lot of black writers don't know how to submit… — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break… — Chazz Palminteri Copy Share Image
I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
I like beautiful writing, pain, unexpected humor, and the message that, at the last second, people are going to be kind to… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's… — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
![“Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet writing this poem? That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles” quote by Pierre Albert-Birot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/257/pierre-albert-birot-46774_children_who-is-that-blond-child-laughing-as-he-r_2203501.jpg)
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