It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have… — Matthew Ashford Copy Share Image
A good day to me is writing from 6 A.M. 'til noon with a break to take my daughter to school. After… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I'd really want to - just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I'd want to do everything… — David Finch Copy Share Image
As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke. — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers… — A. V. Dicey Copy Share Image
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Initially, I began writing myself into my favorite shows. I was a detective on 77 Sunset Strip, the missing Cartwright sibling they… — Marie Ferrarella Copy Share Image
If I had to make a choice between only writing about sports or only writing about music, I would probably write about… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time.… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to… — Joe Frank Copy Share Image
I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
These days, people like me who are in the arts are perceived as celebrity writers. That really makes me angry because I… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“Writing is traveling through uncharted territory - your mind. You are the first traveler, and your essays are the world's first maps.” — Harry Bauld Copy Share Image
“In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I’m going to trust this, I’m going to follow my path and my passion and I’m going to write from my heart... — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old. — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached. — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
“There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.” — Carol Morgan Copy Share Image
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family. — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too.… — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in… — Joe Locke Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams] — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
I pay tax, and I pay federal tax, too. But I have a write-off, a lot of it's depreciation, which is a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.” — Robert Kroetsch Copy Share Image
I'd worked on music docs for years. It felt like writing a novel. By the time I got to Keith Richards, it… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image