grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have some natural talent and really want to write, you should read the books of someone who's very successful in… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing… — Dan Futterman Copy Share Image
It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music,… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
“I have lived my life in pursuit of the remade world... I believe in truth. I believe in truth denied any use… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Since I was a teenager, I had wanted to come to the United States to establish my name as a writer and… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like… — George Mastras Copy Share Image
I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music. — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell. — Tony Oller Copy Share Image
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre. — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Writer's Block I sit down peacefully with my book. Upon the blank page I look. As i tap my pen patiently, patiently,… — Edward James Copy Share Image
The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write. — Gabriel Fielding Copy Share Image
There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
“I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel. — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite… — Princess Superstar Copy Share Image
Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm… — Kay Cannon Copy Share Image
Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
“T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've been writing 'Green Lantern' for a long time, and one of the reasons I've enjoyed it is because the depth of… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing. — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
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