It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Writing on my own versus co-writing kind of is the exact same thing because we don't sit in the same room when… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the… — Charles R. Jackson Copy Share Image
David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's… — William Devane Copy Share Image
According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have… — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
Eventually, as my books became best-sellers, the nickels pile up and one day I was offered a substantial four-book deal that was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs, ... Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson… — Tom Bailey Copy Share Image
Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone… — Tommy Bolin Copy Share Image
If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.” — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“we have no writings from them, or writings of any kind, in fact, from the first two decades of the Christian movement.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A writers' ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other's work on their own websites… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
“The writer’s special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.” — Kay Kenyon Copy Share Image
We're not doing anything vicious or doing anything hateful. All we're doing is writing music that's our truth. I don't think there's… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
I obviously felt a very strong need to be a part of a family. Looking at trains and thinking 'These kids are… — Goldie Copy Share Image
Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
Writing Christian or worship music is just because I love Jesus, so everything I do is going to be an overflow of… — Bart Millard Copy Share Image
I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift),… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
You are the only reason I am still writing, I hope one day you read and understand how beautiful you are. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well… — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
“First, you have to think and think and think and think; then you have to force yourself to write it down.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
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