Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
"Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know… — Harriet Monroe Copy Share Image
“You can call it God or a conscience… but there is a knowing I feel that guides me toward better stories, toward… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“biblical theology by definition comes from the biblical text (or ought to), not from Christian history or the writings of Christians about… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
“We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The book covers are a crucial part of my work - personally speaking. Particularly because, I cannot write a single word of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The Choice You can carve out a life for yourself just as your bones have been carved from some larger bone your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Long ago, during my apprenticeship in the wine trade, I learned that wine is more than the sum of its parts, and… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
Make your copy straightforward to read, understand and use. Use easy words; those that are used for everyday speech. Use phrases that… — Jay Abraham Copy Share Image
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction… — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image
The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent -… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
I believe artists should be able to step into other people's situations, contexts and cultures and work from there. If artists don't… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
Additionally, Liesl and Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic--not a… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I guess to long story short it, I was really just working day jobs when I moved to New York and trying… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
I like when they say a movie is inspired by a true story. That's kind of silly. "Hey, Mitch, did you hear… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write unless I could say, and think for myself. I looked to peers that I not only respected… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick… — Nneka Copy Share Image
“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from… — Karen White Copy Share Image
When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
I think television is moving more into movies, particularly with serialization and almost cinematic proportions and expectations. A show like 'Game of… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
“She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A $200 million contract just got awarded to develop software to provide the Department of Defense with all these sock puppets who… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an “anti-library,” a vast collection of books he had not… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“Do you write every day?' 'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation.… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
“The maid found a handkerchief of hers, under the bed in which she had died. A ring that had been missing turned… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have… — John L. DeWitt Copy Share Image
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
