To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. — Richard Eder Copy Share Image
We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do. — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip. — John Hutton Copy Share Image
I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a herculean task, but the toughest thing is to get convinced with your work, and finally give it… — Shivam Chaudhary Copy Share Image
Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens… — Ennio Morricone Copy Share Image
I've always navigated my way around the comedy writing rooms because I didn't want to cater to this side and that side;… — Jermaine Fowler Copy Share Image
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there… — Martial Copy Share Image
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I'm not a good writer, and I don't care. Unfortunately, after I left college, I didn't have time much for literature. I… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare… — Traci Lea LaRussa Copy Share Image
Cornelius Cardew very famous in Britain, because he was the darling of the avant-garde, and he played in a band called AMM,… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I do feel it's crucial that women's opinions be taken equally with men's. But still'I have not been accepted by the American… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
“In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
