“Success as a writer is within the grasp of whoever can tell a story on paper that people want to hear, and… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer… — John Galliano Copy Share Image
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing… — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront… — Ken Saro-Wiwa Copy Share Image
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Ant & Dec have always nicked stuff off us. We met their writers, they said they just trawl our stuff and adapt… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed, 18-year-old actor, I'd… — Josh Ryan Evans Copy Share Image
I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“Any writer can attest that in the luckiest, happiest state, the words are not coming from you, but through you.” — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
In India, writers are underpaid. Universities should start new courses to create more opportunities for them. — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I don’t write fairy stories because I don’t believe in fairies. I don’t write fairy stories because fairies don’t… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching, — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I before E except after C. Weird? By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or… — Day Parker Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself… — Will Self Copy Share Image
First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
We had to cope with the media writing things which were not true, which were insulting. At around 13 I decided I… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
Write down the things you like most about them (don't expect change from them). Law of attraction will not put you in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about. — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
