Comedy Quote by Warren Ellis

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

— Geoff Dyer

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in…

— Dave Barry

Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

— Lemmy

I'm really bad writing the chase scenes or fighting scenes. I'm much better for writing, like, a more melancholic or tragic music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer.

— Sharon Van Etten

I think screenwriting gave me more of an affinity for plot - my first novel, 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,' doesn't have…

— Jesse Andrews

What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core…

— Harlan Ellison

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

— Taylor Swift

I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But…

— Woody Allen