“Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
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You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff… — Gene Ween Copy Share Image
I like to go in the corner, in the quiet, 'cause I got to hear my thoughts. If I hear the beat… — Dreezy Copy Share Image
I'm awake as soon as the sun crests the eastern hills. I guess I'm motivated because I love just about everything about… — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look… — Troy Walker Copy Share Image
Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
The trap into which all writers have, will, or should fall into, of writing The Great American Watchamacallit, is such an uncluttered… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own life or… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll… — Tyler Hojberg Copy Share Image
Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas,… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Back in the day it was like, I got a great record from a great producer and writer and it's a hit… — Omarion Copy Share Image
But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub,… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“He is a bold man who, in his writing, dares to alter---even further to distort---what he has seen and heard.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I know if I weren't writing about the things I'd like to do I'd be out doing them. Including killing a whole… — Karen E. Quinones Miller Copy Share Image
The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“We reach for God in many ways. Through our pictures and our prayers. Through our writing and our worship. And through them… — Ken Gire Copy Share Image
I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style. — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
