“Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand.” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
For a writer, working in television is an incredibly rewarding medium. You're in charge of all aspects of production and get to… — Stephanie Savage Copy Share Image
One of the fun things in the old days about writing with Frank Miller was that every issue of 'Daredevil' was a… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
Here is a golden Rule… Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule! — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“He was one of those intrepid observers who write under fire, "reporting" among bullets, and to whom every danger is welcome.” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Experimenting is part of the process. I remember when I was younger, I spent a whole year just writing on straight trap… — Cordae Copy Share Image
The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes we'll walk into a set, and I'll think, 'Oh, this film doesn't look like this.' You know, 'cause I read the… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly -… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“That is the kind of people they knew, Marguerite and her father—artists, writers, musicians.” She gave a dismissive sniff.” — Lillian Marek Copy Share Image
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory . — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated… — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word.… — Tarun Betala Copy Share Image
I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I've been guilty of being in the writers' room and going too dark; other people have gone too wacky and zany. — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself.… — Kevin Eubanks Copy Share Image
When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project;… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will… — Henry James Copy Share Image