The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn't like to admit to any intimate relation with what… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
“..i'd like to take my professional life, my career, my writing, my family and my friends seriously, but please, please protect me… — Seumas Gallacher Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was writing all the time, it was such good practice. But I wasn't writing my… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
My bread and butter is rom-com, and if I had to go back and tell my 15-year-old self watching 'When Harry Met… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself,… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
When I write to you, I feel your breath; when you read them, I imagine you feel mine. Is it that way… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Where does a character come from? Because a character, at the end of the day, a character will be the combination of… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
“To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
A high-ranking Syrian official in DC laughed when he heard I was reading Michel Aflaq and writing this book. He said, "Let… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to… — Bernice L. McFadden Copy Share Image
We wanted to do our own programme. It's cooking, chatting to people and writing books. Like brothers, we never run out of… — Dave Myers Copy Share Image
Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical. — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't. — Sandra Dallas Copy Share Image
I feel like too many horror writers and filmmakers sort of just assume that the default is, 'The horror movie must be… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“this chair where i sit and write my poems is beat up and scratched, held together with wire, tape and hope. you… — John Yamrus Copy Share Image
I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge… — Cher Lloyd Copy Share Image
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.” — Felisberto Hernandez Copy Share Image
Basically, I got into stand-up because I'm too egocentric to be an actor and not disciplined enough to be a writer. — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. — Barrett Wendell Copy Share Image
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A. — Lorene Scafaria Copy Share Image
I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing. — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
