“ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the bestselling author of The Lost City of… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, each inextricably connected to the others; he must… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I'd been writing sketches since high school, but 'Friends of the People' really taught me about structure - how to wait out… — Jermaine Fowler Copy Share Image
The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.'… — Jaime Ray Newman Copy Share Image
Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol'… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You write about what you know. It makes everything easier, and also more truthful. In this case, I grew up in Oklahoma,… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
The secret to writing is writing. Lots of people I know talk about writing. They will tell me about the book they… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul’s prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances. It… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of… — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
Well, you know, when you're putting together a show, you've got to be careful not to load it up with the new… — Margo Timmins Copy Share Image
Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
“ I was born, slipping on a symphony of broken melancholy; created of pencils and crayons; i was not supposed to be… — Emily Sturgill Copy Share Image
When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years,… — Philip Selway Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to make a living as a writer in Hollywood than it was probably 10 years ago, though there's… — Ed Brubaker Copy Share Image
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
“A good read is like thanksgiving dinner. Some come to stuff their faces and leave fat and happy. Others come to critique… — Red Mattos Copy Share Image
I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing…… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Another mistake is presenting too much background information, and doing so in the first few pages. Writers should begin their stories with… — Evan Marshall Copy Share Image
Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Lemat's agent says to him: y duty to you, first and foremost, is make sure you have a career, a prosperous one.… — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
When I started out in the '90s, there were not many people of color writing, directing and producing - hence, the roles… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering.… — Ken Doggett Copy Share Image
An artist doesn't depend upon inspiration or have to have it. An artist doesn't depend on mood, certainly not if you're earning… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Stay out of this, Zebulon. (Dolophoni) You guys come to my town, you don’t call. You don’t write. And you expect me… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
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