I really disliked Philadelphia society - really, deeply disliked it. I spent a lot of my teenage years writing poetry attacking it. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“I want to be known as a good wife, mother and writer; but most of all, I desire to be known as… — Alisa Hope Wagner Copy Share Image
“Just remember one thing Angela and then I promise I’ll shut up.’ ‘Can I get that in writing?’ ‘You” — Carol Mason Copy Share Image
The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
“When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk,… — Brandi Bates Copy Share Image
As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say?… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences.… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I am a poet writing of my pain. I am a person living a life of shame. I am your daughter hiding… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
It depends on what your dream might be, as to whether or not it's still possible when you're, say, fifty or sixty.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Writing in a journal each day, with a structured, strategic process allows you to direct your focus to what you did accomplish,… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash;… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Declan Kiberd: Irish writers were an early warning system about abuse Artists played a vital role in the State's formation and since… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
“You have seven writers in your basement?” Donald nods, signing, “They like it here. There’s a poet, a couple of novelists, an… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
What I tend to do is I try and get as much writing done... I get as much writing done at home… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“She carried a notebook with her everywhere and brimmed with ideas. She often woke in the night and switched on the light… — Josephine Moon Copy Share Image
“There is something soothing about the act of writing, a drug that lures you into another world, but then forgets to stop,… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their… — Vince Neil Copy Share Image
I make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the characters, and I know… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I'd love to be able to write an in-depth piece of what causes men like [Richard] Nixon and [H.R.]Haldeman and [John] Ehrlichman… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image