I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali,… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I have a beautiful woman laying in my bed I could be cuddled up to and I'm posting things on here. If… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“The Choice You can carve out a life for yourself just as your bones have been carved from some larger bone your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The book covers are a crucial part of my work - personally speaking. Particularly because, I cannot write a single word of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“biblical theology by definition comes from the biblical text (or ought to), not from Christian history or the writings of Christians about… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“You can call it God or a conscience… but there is a knowing I feel that guides me toward better stories, toward… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
"Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know… — Harriet Monroe Copy Share Image
I like playing guitar I don't like talking about it. I like writing riffs, I don't like explaining them. — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
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Writing is such a 'pretend' profession. Nobody is counting on you at all. You can't 'pretend' to be a lawyer or a… — MacKenzie Scott Copy Share Image
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old! I do plan on the near future… — Vinnie Vincent Copy Share Image
My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it.… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write. — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
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As I have begun to write my memoirs, I have begun with my childhood; memories which were hidden, suddenly appear before you,… — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
