I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“An exceptional book to read on! The author has a writing style and cared! I do not tell you more click on… — Le Douarec Philippe Copy Share Image
As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
With the Internet, there are so many ways to connect with other writers who will be some of your best friends and… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book,… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a… — Chris Thomas King Copy Share Image
In this day and age, if you're aspiring to be an actor, and you're putting all your eggs in one basket, you… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him.… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
“In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
[Writing] books is really fun because your "voice" is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience.… — Liz Tuccillo Copy Share Image
I dont watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad. — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
A lot of times, I know there's something bothering me but I don't know what it is. Then I start writing and… — Jon Rahm Copy Share Image
Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods. — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera. — Darnell M. Hunt Copy Share Image
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters." “Beautiful and full of monsters?"… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
When I'm lonely, frustrated or hurt it usually comes from a male person and from unrequited love. I often carry that pain… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image