And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be. — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer.” — Dr. Kyaciss Pfiell Copy Share Image
I always try to find things worth saying, things that are supposed to be said instead of being contrived. I do a… — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“A watched pot never boils." It's the same with success. So? Throw that burner on HIGH and just keep on cooking. Dinner… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
No one writes for me exclusively, nor do lead roles come by that easily. 'Dulla Bhatti' was one, but I was so… — Binnu Dhillon Copy Share Image
The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on.… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people. — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
The Islamophobia phobes, (ph) the writers and the editors and the talking heads who deny an existence of evil while blaming those… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Common hedging techniques include shorting stocks, buying put options, writing call options, and various types of leverage and paired transactions. While I… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image