The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
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Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Rodrigo Garcia is a brilliant writer. He just loves women. It is evident. When you are in the presence of him you… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
"Light Over Water" is the longest piece I have ever composed. It is a landmark in my personal struggle to create large… — Lucinda Childs Copy Share Image
“[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
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The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I, too, am interested in identity and Islam, which is what people expect of us. But one must not write what is… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
I write on a computer. On breaks, I'll make myself green tea. I don't want something too caffeinated. I guess I don't… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
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When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
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I see globalization as a modern-day muse; it not only enables but entitles today's writers to venture outside the boundaries and the… — MHA Menondji Copy Share Image
Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
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The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic. — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
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Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult… — Frederick Seidel Copy Share Image
I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
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