You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I write from the perspective of an early 20s kid who is trying to grasp an idea of what the hell is… — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
You're your own athlete, you have your own story to write and at the end of the day, our story that we… — Shaquill Griffin Copy Share Image
I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I would love to write something that I'm not in and just be in a rehearsal room as a writer. But I… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big… — Mike White Copy Share Image
What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body;… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“What do you think is my favourite book? Just now, I mean; I change every three days. "Wuthering Heights." Emily Bronte was… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to… — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Write as many books as you want, but remember that literature is never about quantity. Even the most popular works fade into… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
The good part of writing is where it gets out of your control and turns into something else. You look at it… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.” — Megan Smolenyak Copy Share Image
Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
When you're given a certain amount of power - like, you're a writer and an employed writer, and you put pen to… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Hand writing causes thinking - the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
It helped my lyric writing so much studying poetry. I thought I knew what poetry was before I immersed myself in it.… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk,… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get… — Frida Farrell Copy Share Image
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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