“Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.” — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I just like a great song. I just wanted to be this true reflection of what is in my heart and it… — The Rocket Summer Copy Share Image
These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife… — Ismail Merchant Copy Share Image
“Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.” — John Osborne Copy Share Image
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
“You know that feeling of invincibility you sometimes get, especially when young and testing yourself - well that could be because actually… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres,… — Leslye Headland Copy Share Image
Jimmy Fallon's strengths are that he's fun, and he's good at impressions, and he's musically inclined. And my strength is that I'm… — Nikki Glaser Copy Share Image
“The writer was able to capture many of the feelings that I actually had as a abandoned and then adopted child. Actually… — David Brodzinsky Copy Share Image
“Timothy grabbed his squealing, tearful wife and spun her around the room. Then he read the letter again just to be sure… — Barbara Casey Copy Share Image
Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth… — Bonnie Baker Copy Share Image
I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could… — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The thing about doing mashups and covers is it's great, but a part of you never gets to really showcase what your… — Vidya Vox Copy Share Image
I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so… — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down… — Phil Coulter Copy Share Image
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds'… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them. — Bono Copy Share Image
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“Reading and writing is an escape for me. Where I can imagine and become who I want to be when I want… — Zachary Frerichs Copy Share Image
There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Book reviewer: Very often a writer who has never been published taking out their frustrations on a writer who has.” — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
When I'm writing good music and I'm caffeinated, I attribute all my success to the coffee, get really sentimental about the EDM… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
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