“No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.” — Merilyn Simonds Copy Share Image
Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the 'Catholic Herald.' — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain,… — Anne Reeve Aldrich Copy Share Image
I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me,… — Kristin Hunter Copy Share Image
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy,… — Alex de Campi Copy Share Image
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
I don't have a whole bunch of literary connections. I don't write reviews or attend writer's conferences. I'm kind of shy and… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“The biggest gift a writer could have is to have someone with the writing expertise and experience of John Grisham brought to… — Tony Vanderwarker Copy Share Image
“I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little… — Ron Koertge Copy Share Image
Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Intellectuals love Jefferson and hate markets, and intellectuals write most of the books. Intellectuals often think that they should, for the benefit… — John Steele Gordon Copy Share Image
“This leads me to the Higher Editing. Take of well-ground Indian Ink as much as suffices and a camel-hair brush proportionate to… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends and that's a way of recording what I… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a way I was taught to think that's very suited to writing. And, of course, I'm thankful to have… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.” — Eddie Cantor Copy Share Image
In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative? — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had… — Luc Ferrari Copy Share Image
Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image
I think my biggest revelation was to write entirely from the heart, and to convey emotion, even when it meant forcing myself… — Alex Gaskarth Copy Share Image
I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe… — Penny Junor Copy Share Image
The Ryan Murphy television world has assistants who have become producers and writers and. If he trusts you and you have a… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is… — Jeanne Kohl-Welles Copy Share Image
Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing; the idea of writing a novel in a month deserves to be laughed… — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
“There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.” — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“When you're writing a book with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I did 'Never Let Me Go,' and there were amazing people on that. Brilliant writer, director, cast. That was quite special. — Domhnall Gleeson Copy Share Image
I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make made me feel. I… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
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