“Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately. — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and… — Chris Zylka Copy Share Image
The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I'm interested in philosophy, I studied it, and I also admit I try to read things that are way above me. I… — Daniel Lopatin Copy Share Image
I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I've written a book; I've become a better husband and father because I'm home every day. My connection to the Hollywood world… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I can write a love song or a ballad, or when I read something and it pisses me off, I know how… — Tink Copy Share Image
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces. — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves. — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
“and what appears to be every graphic memoir ever written – Jeffrey Brown, Craig Thompson, Alison Bechdel, James Kochalka, Lucy Knisley, and… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review.… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women…why should it be considered a compliment to… — Elizabeth Wordsworth Copy Share Image
That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping… — Monika Pardon Copy Share Image
Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours,… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
“Writer platform is comparable to the listenership of a specific radio station or the viewership of a particular television program.” — Shawna Morey Copy Share Image
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
