Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Buried in research, eyes blood shot, wrists cramping... today was a good writing day.” — F. N. Scott Copy Share Image
The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves? — Anthony Marais Copy Share Image
All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books. — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
“There's something delicious about writing those first few words of a story. You can never quite tell where they will take you.… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
“Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
“What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
I would have done anything. I just really love the Duplass brothers. I was at a place where I was desperate for… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
America is the big subject of the second half of the 20th century, tackled in one form or another by all the… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. They knew how… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,'… — Niccolo Paganini Copy Share Image
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
