I've always been a super-fan of television storytelling. It took me a while to figure that out in a career capacity, but… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing… — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station. — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
“For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what… — Joe Fassler Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't. — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us… — Graham Worthington Copy Share Image
There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Part of my writing style can be attributed to my mother's impatience with comedy, because whenever I told her a story she… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
“ He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
“From 'The Suicide', a play by the Russian writer Nikolai Erdman: 'Only the dead can say what the living are thinking.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“People always see me writing and ask me if they can read my writing. The answer is yes, after I publish it… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“(Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word).” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions, — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
“I’ve wanted to write about them for a long while, but it’s a tricky subject, always put off for later and perhaps… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Writing songs has always been my first and foremost love, and, you know, whether I continue to have success as an artist… — Thomas Rhett Copy Share Image
Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do -… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing! — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics,… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable. — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
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