You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I'm sorry for the randomness of what I wrote, Mr. Oswald. There's been a lot to absorb.' Without looking up, he says,… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
“Most events are inexpressible, and take place in a sphere that no word has ever entered. Most inexpressible of all are works… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...for some of us, books are as important as anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these… — Anne Lamont Copy Share Image
“Though he had spoken of the subject many times, in the silence of his room he added the powerful kind of phrasing… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
See how weak prose is… Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“You never know that. I don't know it; Robert Lowell doesn't know it; John Berryman didn't know it; and Shakespeare probably didn't… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember writing was a poem - about a princess who sat on a hill and sang all day… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper.… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write about comics and I have written little things here and there but I am not confident in… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back? — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Let's agree then . . . if you're about to come to a conclusion, you'll head off in another direction. You might… — Avi Copy Share Image
It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their… — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in,… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I… — Robin Thicke Copy Share Image
My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your… — Lucy Simon Copy Share Image
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“A writer is first of all a reader. It is from reading that I derive the standards by which I measure my… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I write about the forest, sometimes I write about the trees, and occasionally I’ll write about the lumberjack. Actually, the lumberjack… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because… — James Scott Copy Share Image
There is something a little vulgar about writing a novel that is too close to the present, too concerned with current events,… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
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