“IN MY SO-CALLED CAREER, I'VE OFTEN WRITTEN THINGS THAT I VAINLY THOUGHT WERE INCREDIBLY GOOD AND THAT I ENJOYED READING SO MUCH… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
I think that I write much more naturally about characters in solitude than characters interacting with others. My natural inclination - and… — Stefan Merrill Block Copy Share Image
The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“When writing, there are some scenes that are emotionally overwhelming. They completely overcome the author, and only when they do this can… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
“He’s only ever wanted solace. To thrive in the crevices of existence, slip into the dark cracks of life and avoid the… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
“If you’re afraid you can’t write, the answer is to write. Every sentence you construct adds weight to the balance pan. If… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees… — John Green Copy Share Image
I had a very well-respected writer ask me point blank to my face whether it actually mattered to me. Now, without wanting… — Jim Furyk Copy Share Image
I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write with a particular person in mind. I think it's fair to say that I write for a perceptive reader.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“... if you can't be happy then be quiet!" frm "Silent Joe," by T Jefferson Parker." Silence is another form of lying."… — mark Jabbour Copy Share Image
The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to… — James Iha Copy Share Image
In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I write to withdraw as a nominee to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. ...… — Harriet Miers Copy Share Image
I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away.… — Sharon Gless Copy Share Image
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Aaron Sorkin wrote me one of the best female roles on television, I think. He's a wonderful writer for all people. If… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in. The… — John Prine Copy Share Image
“So things remained until one day, many years later, I happened upon a line in a poem by Heine: “Death is the… — Yu Hua Copy Share Image
If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
When I started writing my second novel, I decided that one of the characters would have a passion for dollhouses, which allowed… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
