“My Aunt Dahlia, who runs a woman's paper called Milady's Boudoir, had recently backed me into a corner and made me promise… — Wodehouse Copy Share Image
It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
“...I’ve never understood the logic that says a work doesn’t need to be judged on the quality of its writing or characters… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I went to my old school, where all the kids I'd been with for eight years were about to graduate. But the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You find there's no magic trick, sometimes in the shower, sometimes you're just lying in bed calm, sometimes you're just enjoying life… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
“There’s a difference between the ‘art’ of writing and the ‘craft’ of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to… — William Safire Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Once I am at leisure, said Salvatore, I take refuge in prose as one might in a boat. All day long I… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to… — Rex Murphy Copy Share Image
Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
“Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
“All writers and their readers should stand up and voice their opposition to financial services companies censoring books. Authors should have the… — Mark Coker Copy Share Image
They started doing it in reality TV, where writers don't have union protections and are easy marks for getting this kind of… — Patric Verrone Copy Share Image
I've had my fill of "One Way To Rock" or "I Can't Drive 55." Those are guy songs to me, and I'm… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore.… — Sondre Lerche Copy Share Image
Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Secondly, you can spend your whole life being a story that happens to somebody else. You can twist and cram and shave… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it. And… — Nina Nastasia Copy Share Image
The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them,… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
“On the great canvas of time We all create our own masterpiece. Choreographing our steps across minutes and hours Dancing over the… — Michele Jennae Copy Share Image
