“Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to… — T.J. Mihaila Copy Share Image
I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read)… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.] — Horace Copy Share Image
I'm writing from New Zealand - a country that decided from the beginning that the War was wrong, and chose not to… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Children's book writers tend to feel quite superior, and adult writers tend to feel they wouldn't know how to write a children's… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past ("en… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
You know, you get a bad review as a writer, you remember it for 10 years. You get a hundred good reviews,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“First, there must be talent, much talent. Talent such as Kipling had. Then there must be discipline. The discipline of Flaubert. Then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The other thing that’s happened with writing is that I’m not afraid it will go away. Up until a couple of years… — Marsha L. Larsen Copy Share Image
So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer. — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find. — Gabriel Fielding Copy Share Image
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself!… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot of road songs. Writing a lot of homesick songs. But once you start playing them out, it… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
“You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In some ways, writing music is an art because so much of it is instinctive and sort of below consciousness, and lyric… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while. — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
The only way to help your unique literary voice grow and eventually sing like a glorious creature of wonder is to write… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
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