A Quote by Brad Meltzer

All writers steal from their own lives.

Brad Meltzer

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Brad Meltzer
American - Novelist
Born: April 1, 1970

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Aaron Sorkin

All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.

Simon Toyne

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

Chaim Potok

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

S.M. Stirling

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

T. S. Eliot

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

Michael Caine

I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.

Karen Joy Fowler

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal," Eddis said. "So?" "If it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides. Steal me some time.

Megan Whalen Turner

Madison Avenue makes us addicts of consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own lives.

Alex Jones

You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

Alice Walker

Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?

Richard Yates

If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught.

Mobutu Sese Seko

If you're going to steal a car, don't steal a mail vehicle. They don't mess around. I mean, have fun, steal all the cars you want, but don't steal a U.S. Mail vehicle.