In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women,… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
“Novelist Sinclair Lewis was supposed to deliver an hour-long lecture to a group of college students who planned to be writers. Lewis… — Peter Prichard Copy Share Image
“Harrison wrote a two-page poem about his deep feelings of loss when his dog Filbert died, and Mrs. Minerva, the creative writing… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day.… — Daya Copy Share Image
I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
“As long as I have questions and no answers I’ll keep on writing. How do you start at the beginning, if things… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Basically what I'm trying to say is that when you get down to the nitty gritty of song writing, it is very… — Vienna Teng Copy Share Image
“...slowly I discerned a familiar shift in my concentration. That compulsion that prohibits me from completely surrendering to a work of art,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“I have seldom met an individual of literary tastes or propensities in whom the writing of love was not directly attributable to… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
My mother was a writer. She acted in one film before she decided that Bollywood wasn't good enough for her. My two… — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
When you write a show, you just never know if it will have a future or if the show will end up… — Michael Patrick Walker Copy Share Image
It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
“Anthony DeCurtis came on board as a line editor and right away the project hit another level; his input snapped my sometimes… — Tom Moon Copy Share Image
No. He cleared his throat. Im serious, we are really different. To those who dont know me and Stark's secret will know… — Jade Copy Share Image
Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
Sometimes I suspect that there are two prototypes of philosophers who write about humans - I call them "celestials" and "terrestrials", without… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
It's a challenge, for sure. My family is not seeing me at all, for probably the next six months, and they haven't… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
The other thing - and writers can say whatever they want - is casting. You need to find a person who can… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Definitely haven't been doing writing. I'm so intimated by it now because I sort of put it to bed after I graduated,… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
When you're writing it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea. It's nice- that… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
You are obviously writing out of experience and so the boundaries are always blurred, it is just that sometimes it would seem… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
