As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Most of the stuff I've written has never even gotten made. It's par for the course. It's a great living, but it… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
“In recovery, it's all about putting one foot in front of the other. As a writer, it's all about putting one word… — Jennifer Storm Copy Share Image
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black Copy Share Image
You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the… — Lee Brice Copy Share Image
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Writing, as most art, is considered to be essentially superfluous. Who is an artist before a surgeon? Or a scientist? But the… — Rainer J. Hanshe Copy Share Image
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“One thing I love about writing is that in that moment, I am most completely myself, and yet totally relieved of my… — Kathryn Barrison Copy Share Image
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write,… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer. — John Logan Copy Share Image
Remember that input is as important as output. Take in something for inspiration, to relight the fire inside you, and ideas on… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can… — Boss Tweed Copy Share Image
The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When you're writing a team book where every character already has his or her own series, you don't have dominion over them… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
“Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did.” — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Why do I write? I have been called a writer of catastrophes, but that isn't true. I am always looking for words… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
Do Not Compare Your Love Story With Those Romantic Movies… Because Those Are Writen By Scrip Writers And 0urs Is Writen By… — Udigwe Vinsnt Copy Share Image
Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems. — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Dale Mayer is a prolific multi-published writer. She's best known for her Psychic Visions series. Besides her romantic suspense/thrillers, Dale also writes… — Dale Mayer Copy Share Image
