“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
I believe in hiring people to do their jobs.I want to hire an editor.They say you make a movie three times: when… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen. Yes it is this very… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
The thing I always tell my writing students - I'm not a full-time instructor, by any means, but periodically I've taught writing… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I don't teach anymore, but I can still clearly see fifth period after lunch - that's a real tough time to teach.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young. — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“I wake up knowing that there is hope and patience. Every morning I wake up, I surrender myself to the Beautiful universe… — Jawed 's Copy Share Image
I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
“What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.” — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek… — Derrek Lee Copy Share Image
For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may… — Joe Zawinul Copy Share Image
“The writer Jonathan Lethem has said that when people call something “original,” nine out of ten times they just don’t know the… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the… — Violet Duke Copy Share Image
What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Sometimes you run out of ideas, just like if you are a writer or whatever. Then you just have to wait around… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
I've written about women's lives, and I just want to write about them from being a woman. I don't need feminism on… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I was always cutting words. I even would write my jokes in my notebook. I still do this, almost like a poem. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
