I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it,… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
“The form in which thoughts occur to a writer is rarely the same as the form in which they can be absorbed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice.… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader… — Lee Pace Copy Share Image
“It shouldn’t surprise you, then, that notes written by internists read like novellas (ones in which we’re paid by the word), while… — Robert Wachter Copy Share Image
Why such a young beautiful girl like you would want to waste her time partying so much. I could only think of… — Jade Copy Share Image
I'm totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I'm on… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
“Whether you know it or not, your desire to write comes from the urge to not just be “creative,” it’s a need… — Shawn Coyne Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me.… — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
“As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got… — Edie Falco Copy Share Image
There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I have fallen deeply in love with songs - musical theatre songs included - over the years, and this experience has taught… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“We writers love our wanderings. In search of newer experiences and newer fragrances, we keep drifting from place to place!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“When becoming a writer don’t think of success, imagine you are throwing your book into a vast ocean with the only hope… — Mark L Lloyd Copy Share Image
I've never stopped writing, I've never slowed down just because I don't have something on the radio or a No. 1 or… — Poo Bear Copy Share Image
No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm… — Ronald Harwood Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Vitamin D,” Stevie said. “You need it.” “You don’t know that,” he said. “I want to eat my meat in my room… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
