I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex,… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
“I love how writing does so much; it can break down complex subjects to their essence, paint virtual pictures, entertain and make… — Barbara Roy Copy Share Image
The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I don't believe in… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another.… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers; and only someone with a mind like Shelley's can write… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I used to make demo tapes with cats that rocked with Russell Simmons and people like that. The history goes so far… — Gza Copy Share Image
The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene. — Leonora Speyer Copy Share Image
“A colombian writer committed suicide because he didn't believe in life after 26 and that's okay for me because what's the point… — Mary castle Copy Share Image
Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got… — William Empson Copy Share Image
A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people. — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
“You can write the most wonderful book in the world. But if people don’t know about your book they won’t know to… — Madi Preda Copy Share Image
What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ". — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime. — Lady Sovereign Copy Share Image
“I think I couldn’t love him at all if he was the sort of man to make me choose between him and… — Meljean Brook Copy Share Image
“Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
“Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency . . . to get the book written. If a writer has to rob… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs." [ Time Magazine , October 31, 1977]” — John Osborne Copy Share Image
Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy,… — Jeffrey Zeldman Copy Share Image
My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere. — Rex Orange County Copy Share Image
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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