I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it? — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
I like a fine wine. Who can beat that? I don't think it helps writing; I think it's a hinderance. It helps… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers. — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
In fact, on a side note, after the success of the first record, I got asked to write for some pop artists,… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Good writing starts strong. Not with a cliché (“Since the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“indeed but little is said of Him by secular historians of His time. Few and short as are the allusions to Him… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“A well-known writer said writing is like getting sick to your stomach. You throw up and clean up afterward.” — Maija Rhee Devine Copy Share Image
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
“When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a… — August Wilhelm Von Schlegel Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
Staying healthy through movement and eating well gives you tons of energy and helps mold the skills that allow you to achieve… — Sabrina Bryan Copy Share Image
“Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value… — Wil Zeus Copy Share Image
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed the process of 'Women in Clothes,' but there's no way I would have done that again. It felt more… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The people I love the most in the film industry are the writers. And I think they're the people who are most… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
My mind immediately shot to South Africa the moment I sat down to think what I was going to write, what I… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I believe that reality is vastly richer than the cursory attention we usually give it permits us to understand. I like to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
One of my strengths as a writer is that I'm a good problem-solver. I write these unthinking, ungoverned first drafts. The project… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
“A story always tells the truth about the true intention of the storyteller, regardless of the plot." - Peter Arpesella” — Peter Arpesella Copy Share Image
I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
