“Of course, you cannot just blurt out a quote whenever you feel like it. For a quote to have the desired effect,… — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.” — David Shields Copy Share Image
People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story… Writing is seduction. Good… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff. — Robert Knepper Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry if...I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds.… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
If you write, write about what you do and who you are, and you can't be wrong. Don't lie about anything. You… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“In fiction, especially in texts that are framed by a storytelling situation, aporia is a favourite device of narrators to arouse curiosity… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Will had discovered, even before coming to the City, that his muse was, like all muses, an incredibly finicky and temperamental mistress.… — Chris Lester Copy Share Image
“There is a reason why I am a writer... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to… — Phil Wohl Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“I write poetry not for publication but merely to kill time. Airplanes are a good place to write poetry and then throw… — Irish" Wayne Kelly Copy Share Image
A number of mysterious words , secretive puzzles, lot many confusionsand dilemma when enters a mind and make you feel a bit… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that. — Ben Rosenfield Copy Share Image
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of… — Christian Kane Copy Share Image
I'm trying my best to sound like me rather than trying my best to write hits or praying to God that people… — Andrew Ripp Copy Share Image
I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if I talk to myself becuase I'm a writer, or if I'm a writer because I talk to myself” — rosemary clement-moore Copy Share Image
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
