To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener.… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
It's quite different writing for films and for myself. You have to help guide a scene along emotionally, and the wrong approach… — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
I work on a word count basis, so I have to write three thousand words a day. I can write them in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage… — Tift Merritt Copy Share Image
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In my personal and spiritual life, I reject that. I don't believe in that. I'm always trying to get my mind into… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
“Write me what you're wearing! Is it warm? Write me how you lie! Do you lie there softly? Write me how you… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
When I listen to Airplanes record, it takes me back. I remember a lot of my thought processes when I was 20… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by… — Charles Brower Copy Share Image
You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own… — Harry Styles Copy Share Image
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
“I've reached that final moment of editing a book—the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging… — Richard Due Copy Share Image
When I was writing Shadow and Bone,' I really had no confidence as a writer. I had never finished a book before… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“fI you ees mistakes ni my writing, do not copy ro criticize. Simply correct ti and share eht knowledge. We already have… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Media is a double-edged sword and has the power to change hearts and minds through authentic storytelling as well as the power… — Angelica Ross Copy Share Image
Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps,… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says. — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write since 1998 after dropping out of Visual Communication from Loyola. My parents have been supportive. — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
“We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
“Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up… — A.J. Dalton Copy Share Image
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar! — Moliere Copy Share Image
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin… — Allan W. Eckert Copy Share Image
