Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jenny Offill

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.

Jane Badler

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

Cy Coleman

It's like The Life in that it focuses on the people who inhabit a specific world, which this time is the very distinctive world of jazz.

Mariella Frostrup

We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts.

Paul Greengrass

They were the first people to inhabit the post-9/11 world.

Susan Egan

I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Lois Lowry

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Jenny Offill

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Alan Moore

I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.