“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling.… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
My favourite writers are always great storytellers, like Bruce Springsteen; I adore Bruce Springsteen. I feel like he doesn't beat around the… — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. I think figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
“And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I don't think you can be a character who's completely alien or divorced from your own personality. It's probably true of… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I just started to want to be more hands on, and again, because of the nature of this job which was to… — Rob Urbinati Copy Share Image
I have written scripts, so I look at a part the way a writer would. That is, I look at it and… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I'm a little more laid back when it comes to writing. I don't like to do scheduled writing-type stuff. However, I've written… — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Somewhere on the bottom of the Pacific is a copy of The Forsyte Saga I heaved overboard one afternoon. I very quickly… — MacDonald Harris Copy Share Image
As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“I get my heroes so that they're lean and hard muscled and mocking and sardonic and tough and tigerish and single, of… — Violet Winspear Copy Share Image
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When I've written for Bill Murray - I've written six films for him - people would read it and say, "Oh, that's… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his… — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
More or less the first thing that comes into my head is that some people are always looking for what they want… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I was starting to recognize a corner I was driving myself into: that all writing could do was refer to things that… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
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