The stories that I tell, the topics that I choose to write about, usually are suggested by something that I've done before. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“I show that I have understood a writer only when I can act in his spirit, when, without constricting his individuality, I… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Before we started shooting 'Homecoming,' we were in the writer's room for 'Mr. Robot.' I was also editing Season 3 of 'Mr.… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to… — Elise Valmorbida Copy Share Image
“Every poet will forever try to write the greatest poem ever written, I have found that this kind of poem can be… — Michael Jones Copy Share Image
Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The writing process is more... it becomes a case of more like a diary for me. I mean, I write stuff down… — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of pressure that goes with writing superhero characters, especially characters that are beloved to audiences. You know that… — Mariko Tamaki Copy Share Image
“My old friend, Gene Logsdon, who’s a fine writer on agriculture, and lately a novelist, once asked an Amish factory owner, “Do… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I… — Ramsey Campbell Copy Share Image
I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history,… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
“The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all… — Nathan Bransford Copy Share Image
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides. — Pamela Frankau Copy Share Image
Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix. — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
“I don't know who to write to anymore... They've changed their souls, that's a way to be disloyal, to forget, to keep… — Céline Copy Share Image
“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Someone misdirected you [...] Most writers in New York don't do much writing. They spend their time talking and drinking bootleg liquor.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day… — Leonard Wolf Copy Share Image
“He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.'… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“...at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
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![“Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet writing this poem? That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles” quote by Pierre Albert-Birot](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/257/pierre-albert-birot-46774_children_who-is-that-blond-child-laughing-as-he-r_2203501.jpg)
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