Often as a writer, you get your first draft out, and then you look and think, 'Now, what have I got here.'… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap -… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I'm interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“You, the reader, make the book, but the book does not in itself exist between these decomposing covers. You read the script,… — Jason Henderson Copy Share Image
What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in the smaller, more tedious cities, to those… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown… — Alfred Smee Copy Share Image
To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
It's coming home for me as a writer, which means that, with my friends, I'd have to be able to write through… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
I avoid continuously writing or tweeting about ISIS, as it centres them in the narrative and we end up reacting to them… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I really enjoy just being an actor. It's fun to be surprised by someone else's writing and to collaborate in creating a… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
My mom was a piano teacher and I grew up taking voice lessons since I was 9. I started off writing melodies… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master. — Deon Meyer Copy Share Image
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A deep level of personal engagement is key to good writing and complete immersion by the writer will translate into a richer… — Nidhie Sharma Copy Share Image
Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Alice heard a woman say, 'Before I start writing I feel affectionate, interested, and frustrated. In that order. Afterwards I feel relieved,… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I think it's possible for anybody to write what they want to write - superheroes, historical, period drama, 'Game Of Thrones' -… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
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