“In the tapestry of a writer’s life, heartbreak is the thread that weaves the most intricate and haunting patterns.” ” — Dr. Nitin Chopra Copy Share Image
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they… — John Frankenheimer Copy Share Image
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
I'm just very sort of compulsive and lack the ability to keep things in perspective. If I'm not writing or playing guitar… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The concept of a writer writing a vivid and accurate scene in a language transparent and devoid of decoration so that we… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
We're always being told 'find your voice.' When I was younger, I never really knew what this meant. I used to worry… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our… — Hal Zina Bennett Copy Share Image
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
Researching and writing about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 was one of the most exciting and involving projects I've undertaken. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye… — John Green Copy Share Image
The success that I have in sitcoms comes from the fact that 60 percent of the writers are Jewish guys in their… — Sam Seder Copy Share Image
“The whole political mess, the universal squalor, the essential pettiness of mankind oppressed him and he’d submerged himself in work and writing… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
I like to write pop songs and the stuff I write is fairly poppy, so I thought maybe my lot in life… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
We don't ever write stuff individually and say, 'OK, this is gonna be the song.' We bring in ideas in their rawest… — Justin Chancellor Copy Share Image
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I know the action in the street is excitin' But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’ I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’. — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy. — Adam Anderson Copy Share Image
“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
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