A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and remain tenacious and just believe the end will come. Other times it's not an… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
If you're into writing and making people laugh, or just want to video blog something, you should get a simple digital video… — Lucas Cruikshank Copy Share Image
It's interesting because when David Fincher was making "Fight Club," he said, "It's a romance." And it really is. Almost everything I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious." [ Ten rules for writing fiction , The Guardian, 20 February 2010 (with… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“My idea of absolute happiness is to sit in a hot garden all, reading, or writing, utterly safe in the knowledge that… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
It's kind of like being a writer in the sense that you always hear other writers say, 'Well, the best way to… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted… — Matthew Nable Copy Share Image
I mean, my wife is always like - I don't write lyrics. So I couldn't, like, really technically write a song for… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want… — John Green Copy Share Image
All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help… — Marina Oliver Copy Share Image
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point… — James Salter Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
There's a lot of times where we'll come up with something on the spot, and the writers will catch it in the… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and… — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
I was already writing poetry, so I transitioned from writing poetry a cappella to writing over beats, and it was way more… — Saweetie Copy Share Image
I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
“Just as a fighter has to feel that he possesses the right to do physical damage to another man, so a writer… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.” — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
