“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It… — Haley Pullos Copy Share Image
I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Read your work out loud. Don't give me that look. Read your work aloud. Don't argue. Don't fight. It will help. I… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something… — Ander Monson Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity.… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Why I love these words They are mine You cannot change that You cannot rearrange that Try as you might You cannot… — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
“poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought” — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I'm not writing about the 1 percent of people who have this fairy-tale, amazing life. I'm writing about people like me, who… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom. — Cao Yu Copy Share Image
I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do. — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I definitely still have ... angst but I also wrote some songs that say it's okay to love, now. I'm happy in… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. — Jean-Francois Chevrier Copy Share Image
It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Sometimes I felt like my columns were like little novels in themselves. But I wasn't writing what I believed. I'm not interested… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
It's much easier to teach writing, because people are less shy about writing. If they're in a group, nobody can see what… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no… — Michael Lindsay-Hogg Copy Share Image
