“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me.… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been influenced by so many different writers along the way - from Charles Dickens, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, John D. McDonald,… — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
“It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I started off by doing everything myself, driving the truck, going to the woodshop, buying the wood, designing the furniture, cutting it… — David Linley Copy Share Image
Science was always a passion, but I also loved 'Monty Python' and 'The Young Ones,' and I discovered the Footlights comedy club… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
“Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing; voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All… — Naveed Saleh Copy Share Image
The creative process requires a period of boredom, of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with… — Jason Mulgrew Copy Share Image
Guy Picciotto had a really sound point: Live albums basically have bands playing songs that are available on studio records, and what… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“As a writer, you often feel invisible. No one is waiting for what you are writing; life goes on as you sit… — James Morris Copy Share Image
I spend months, sometimes years, doing what I call dreamtime, weaving it together inside my head. But when I actually feel that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“I often think publishing a book is like doing a poo. Once it's ready for the world, you have to relinquish that… — H.O. Charles Copy Share Image
I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“He pointed at the paper. “I want you to write me a description of every foot you’ve put wrong since we met.… — J.A. Rock Copy Share Image
When I write and produce something, I know exactly how I want it to sound, and I have a very strong interpretation… — George Michael Copy Share Image
So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
“Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
There is this split between the Haiti of before the earthquake and the Haiti of after the earthquake. So when I'm writing… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“We have a moment of pure creative inspiration — writing or drawing or sculpting — and it feels exhilarating in the moment.… — Courtney Martin Copy Share Image
I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I was a bit of an accident really - I certainly didn't set out to write a cookbook or three. I didn't… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I only worked on that one movie, but then quickly realized that the path of being an assistant director was not gonna… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
