I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing. — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it’s a winner’s trifecta and you’ll… — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously." [ Writer’s Digest Interview… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“It must be nice to have someone to write to. I’ve never had the luxury of love letters,” Maxon said, a sad… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
When you work in a writers room for a showrunner, you serve that story, and you serve that showrunner. I don't think… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I will see 100 or 200 and I will take my time with them and I audition them for the two main… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
“But all this was beside the point. What scared Amy was the mere fact of what looked inescapably like recreational malevolence. The… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
Aaron Sorkin uses a lot of the same people again and again - the people he likes. I think if there's ever… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
“Dear lady, ... dear gentleman, reader, [it's] not right ... to put down this writer on his writing ... And I'll tell… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs” or the “Carnet… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies. — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
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I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a… — Ahmet Zappa Copy Share Image
I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism." — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
In the old world, people used to have to go to focus groups and ask people what they thought. Now, people are… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
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I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
“We are the living Scripture being written in our time, and it is in the grit of our lives that god writes… — Johanna Copy Share Image
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me. — Will Self Copy Share Image
When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn't know I was going to become a writer - I… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Despite my critical take on the city, I love Delhi, on the whole - love its monuments, love how easily graspable the… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class.… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
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