If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I started writing 'God's War' knowing that I wanted to write about real people on a resource-strapped planet at perpetual war. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its… — George Will Copy Share Image
God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“This might sound a little nutty, but to write fiction is to live in an invented world with a set of imaginary… — April Lindner Copy Share Image
I tend to get lonely a lot. That is probably why I try to write about different things when I am alone.… — Yunho Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Did the nineteenth-century novelists create more generously than we do now? In a general reading of contemporary work, do you see a… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I have accepted the fact that I don't work very quickly, that I have been rejected a lot as a writer, and… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
When in doubt, it is better to do the less conservative thing and to err on the side of the more colorful,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then. — Orianthi Copy Share Image
Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am not fully forgiven until I allow God to write his new dream for my life on the blackboard of my… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
“Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
I think it's so scummy when 'friends' write tweets about each other, if you have a problem then be a real friend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make… — Leon Bridges Copy Share Image
I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
“I told him I wanted to major in creative writing and sit around in yoga pants and do nothing but write books… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“I think the hardest thing about writing is writing." [Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I suppose in the long run, it's the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there's enough room for all kinds… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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