I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy.… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I think I write serious comedies. I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
I didn't write superheroes for the first 10 years of my comic career. I was just doing fan fiction. I wasn't thinking… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
Whenever it feels good to write, I just am so relieved, and that is the one revelation every time. I thank God… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again.… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers. — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
I had a bumper sticker on my car for a long time that said, "Kill your television." People helpfully pointed out that… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process. — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
If I as a storyteller and performer get to participate in something that can potentially elevate something in society, morally? I'm all… — Rob Morgan Copy Share Image
I started writing out all of my feelings, and people asked me, 'Have you ever thought of recording your music?' It was… — Khalid Copy Share Image
Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
I love hooks, but getting radio airplay has never been a concern to me while I'm writing. That would be a very… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
I'm an African-American writer, I'm a lazy writer, I'm a writer who likes to watch The Wire, I'm a writer who likes… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
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