I write sometimes when I'm sad, I write sometimes when I'm lonely, I write sometimes when I'm afraid, but most of all… — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material. — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,'… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time. — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted… — joyce carol oates Copy Share Image
I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people… — Brian A. McBride Copy Share Image
“This is what you do when you journal. You are recording God’s grand, epoch-spanning redemptive story as it unfolds in your limited,… — Adam L. Feldman Copy Share Image
Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I think I was always writing books that had very clear scenic structures. I do tend to write in scenes. I do… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“we cannot escape showing who we are. What we write and how we express it gives away as much information as our… — Susan Feehan Copy Share Image
My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“Find children in your neighborhood, Teach them to read and write Take them out of the darkness, Into the light” — Charmaine J Forde Copy Share Image
Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong… — Colleen O'Connor Copy Share Image
“For in those days I had no idea that many of the greatest books are like a forest, and that the best… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
If I can help create empathy and balance in society, I'm going to do whatever I can to tell stories that subconsciously… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
“I was a happy young woman and I just happened to write poetry. I wasn’t trying to get anywhere, I was where… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can… — Yuna Copy Share Image
You find yourself writing the truth, because it's like, 'Well, I ain't writing for anyone but myself anyway.' — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing. — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I like learning things from books. Some of my favourites are George MacDonald Fraser's 'Flashman' novels; he researched them meticulously. — Richard Bacon Copy Share Image
When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura… — Sonia Levitin Copy Share Image
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