“The limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
It's fashionable to use terms like 'sales funnels' to describe the sales process for many companies, and it is true that the… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Idly, I flipped through the ledger's pages, for I cannot resist a book set before me no matter its kind. Writing draws… — Kate Elliot Copy Share Image
I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully,… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor,… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add,… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I went to public schools in Bangor, Maine, and had as normal a childhood as you could imagine someone could, living in… — Owen King Copy Share Image
It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book.… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique.… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
“Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
There's a part of me, and I'm sure every single musician that writes for themselves has this: there's a layer of precious… — Sarah Jaffe Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it is important to recognize that notions of self-fashioning were circulating in Renaissance Europe not only among members of the rising… — Helena Goscilo Copy Share Image
Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
