I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between an author and a writer. The author never gives up when things go wrong, but the writer… — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us... — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're… — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I read the script first to get the perspective on the whole story, the writing, and how the character I'm auditioning for… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
“Cancer is another forbidden or “whisper” topic. I read about a writer named Emily McDowell who said the worst part of being… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I don't believe that art and politics or social issues must be separated. In writing about marriage, for example, money can be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
My artistic goal was to write something that's one hundred percent real and true to me and to this world. I tried… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
“I wish I had adventures like you do,” Leaf said as she traced her finger over the writing on the invitation. “They… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is. — Jennifer Hale Copy Share Image
If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write.” — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want… — J. A. Jance Copy Share Image
I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what… — James Avery Copy Share Image
I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
“Texting is a sex toy: pleasurable but a substitute for the real thing. Love has a face. Video chatting is good, but… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
My feeling is that I don't really care about the genre or the size of the movie. I care about the quality… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
When we were first writing 'Stranger Things,' the first thing we wrote was that Dungeons & Dragons scene. And we wrote it… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I feel like if you can make music, and get people to, you know, evoke that feeling out of other people through… — Dr. Luke Copy Share Image
I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a… — Eminem Copy Share Image
If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
