I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until… — Christopher John Farley Copy Share Image
“We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I… — Jules Shear Copy Share Image
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers. — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“The style was strange. The writing was clear and sometimes even transparent, but the way the stories followed one after another didn’t… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid to write. It's so dangerous. Anyone who's tried, knows. The danger of stirring up hidden things - and the world… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production.… — Tim Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
Having written for film and television, I had little interest in turning 'The Good Father' into a Hollywood thriller. I was writing… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln wrote it on his way to the site of the speech on… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“There's a magic to letting a story and its people unfold with witchcraft and late nights and walks in the woods. You… — Kate Inglis Copy Share Image
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives… — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them.… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on… — Christina Perri Copy Share Image
I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
Working on 'Housewives' was very similar to 'Sex and the City.' Different cities, of course, but a high level of talent in… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
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I'm not working on anything. I was trying to write something new . . . I guess the goal for me now,… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.” — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
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I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
