I find putting oneself out there difficult. I think writing and sharing writing require different skill sets. I want to be read,… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
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I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show… — Brian Van Holt Copy Share Image
When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
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“Literature...describes a descent. First, gods. Then demigods. Then epic became tragedy: failed kings, failed heroes. Then the gentry. Then the middle class… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time,” Nora said, as she fluttered a series of kisses over his shoulders that sent every nerve in his… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
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The important thing about doing art and writing is that we are using our voices and using them really, really loudly. And… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories… — George Gerbner Copy Share Image
One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good… — Alex Gansa Copy Share Image
I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is brilliant because you can totally exaggerate everything and not have to worry about legal issues. — Coleen Nolan Copy Share Image
If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about racing to the finish line; it's about finding joy in each step of the process. If a writer focuses… — Christopher Meyerhoeffer Copy Share Image
Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
“At least I could relate to Rose’s sense of adventure and Harriet Jones’ wacky determination and ingrained sense of responsibility. I can… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
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One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I never leave home without my writing notebook, and get a lot of writing done in transit. One great place to create… — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart… — Paul Michael Glaser Copy Share Image
The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than… — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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