Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something .… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together. September 14, 1911: Writer and teacher… — William H. Armstrong Copy Share Image
One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
I've written six seasons of a TV show with great help from an incredible staff of writers and other collaborators, but I… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
I had written four scripts before I wrote Recount. Each one progressed my career a little bit, but I didn't make a… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I look for us - people of color in Hollywood, to create more stories as writers, directors and filmmakers, creating more opportunities… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“The spelling in the honors essays was mostly correct, and the diction was clear (although my cautious college-bound don’t-take-a-chancers had an irritating… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing… — George Stephen Copy Share Image
When you use the form of a novel, and you say 'I,' you are also saying 'I' for someone else. When you… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
I like writing with people. I think the times that I've closed myself off to not writing with people, I haven't gotten… — Noah Cyrus Copy Share Image
The golden rule would be to write a great, authentic song that is well produced and it will find its home. The… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If you look back throughout the history of Broadway, there's always been periods where writers and producers have delivered the kind of… — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
Right now I think I'm the smartest I've ever been. I'm doing everything great now and everything perfect. Like with this taxes… — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
"National Anthem" was just a funny idea I'd been knocking about. I initially thought about a beloved celebrity having to do that… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“If I can make a difference to some readers and help them to escape from some pains of unforgiveness and emotional misery… — Roger Macdonald Andrew Copy Share Image
Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some… — Kieron Gillen Copy Share Image
We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“They couldn't talk. They were not good talkers, either of them. And once, long ago now, she had bought a notebook for… — Keith Ridgway Copy Share Image
It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
