I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and… — Geraldine Solon Copy Share Image
A lot of times, comedy writers will go for the gay joke, and I've been vocal about saying, 'Go for the smart… — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
On 'About Time' there were about three times I had a co-writer with me. The rest of them was me, I wrote… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously. — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
So many writers don't like to write... I like to write, and sometimes I'm afraid I like it too much, because when… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
“Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. But what they did… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“I used to think that one day I should write a really great novel, but I've long ceased even to hope for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write,… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I don't like to work with directors who have taken an adoption from another script writer, because it's too much: one of… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I've been writing stories all my life. My very first story had two little black girls riding horses. They were both me,… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
“Only by examining our personal biases can we grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we grow as people.” — Jen Knox Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“It really is torture to sit around the house and write all day. I’m thinking it might motivate me to finish the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
As I was not a good singer - I have started to sing. And because no one could write an appropriate song… — Verka Serduchka Copy Share Image
I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about. — Jack Higgins Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day… — Leonard Wolf Copy Share Image
“He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.'… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
“Someone misdirected you [...] Most writers in New York don't do much writing. They spend their time talking and drinking bootleg liquor.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix. — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
“I don't know who to write to anymore... They've changed their souls, that's a way to be disloyal, to forget, to keep… — Céline Copy Share Image
You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
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