I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I have a couple screenplays that are done, and I'm looking for the right people to help me make them. I do… — Jimmi Simpson Copy Share Image
I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it. — Feist Copy Share Image
“Mounting anything on a plaque instantly transforms it from trash into an award. For example, a dry disposable pen goes from junk… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Real science is the greatest, most exciting springboard I have available to me as a writer, and I don't feel the least… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“Cabral’s poetry, as with Guimarães Rosa’s prose, constituted a critical reply to the relations of determination that existed in regionalist literature between… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
If one is writing in a way that is questioning, or even raising questions about how we are supposed to negotiate the… — Adam Braver Copy Share Image
“Alice James Books is a nonprofit cooperative poetry press, founded in 1973 by five women and two men: Patricia Cumming, Marjorie Fletcher,… — Alice James Books Copy Share Image
There's that area, right there, where you can be too hard on yourself or you need to be really hard on yourself… — Cody Johnson Copy Share Image
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Back in the fifties (the nineteen fifties, not the eighteen fifties) I did some writing for Mad Magazine, along with my friend… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I'm also on the Board at Sundance, so I've seen witnessed first hand the power of independent storytelling. — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
“If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to… — Sonia Rumzi Copy Share Image
I wrote about the Serbs, because no one was writing about them, even if I also think about the Croat and Muslim… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director… — Lauren Ashley Carter Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you last night. I was writing a ‘Sex for dummies-Christians That Secretly What to be Porn Stars-… — Crystal Hudson Copy Share Image
A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive,… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories.… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“... classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in… — Clint Van Winkle Copy Share Image
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
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