You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and… — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently… There's only the last page left to write on.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist,… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama 'Better Luck Tomorrow,' a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually… — Madchen Amick Copy Share Image
It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,'… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience. — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just… — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image
Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters. — John Banville Copy Share Image
Eva [Braun] liked to write cards and letters, she spent a great deal of time on this. She had lovely writing, lovely… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country. — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on, or someone must… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs... because they have the most to… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
There is not enough that I can write about you, but I want to end this page by saying that I really,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline:… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
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