As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Basically I can't sleep without every single song I'm writing repeating endlessly, but I'm loving it again. Embracing the torture, as I'm… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Writing can flow out when I'm feeling something strongly, whether that's joy, pain, fear, desire or anything else. The challenge is actually… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I strive to use references that may still make some kind of sense once our age has passed into history. That robs… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
If the government doesn't fund education, which they often don't, students are going to stay home and not go to school. It… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I was walking around in an almost blind, crazy rage of madness. There was a story burning a hole in my brain,… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Don't be too concerned about the wingnut ears. Anxiety produces the wrong pheromones. Roll with the punches. Make time for life around… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“There's nothing wrong with this. Other than sentimentality, the typewriter offers nothing special to the act of writing. What an author uses… — Todd Michael Cox Copy Share Image
If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
“Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration.… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I'll just talk and talk for an hour, an hour and half, until funny things come out of my mouth - often… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Value the quality of your articles over the number of articles you write. I know a lot of bloggers focus on writing… — Jeet Banerjee Copy Share Image
“The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you're good, they bring you into… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal!… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
“For Indians there has never been a clear line between prose and poetry. When an Indian studying in New Mexico was praised… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Before you deride the “mainstream media,” note that it is no longer the mainstream. It is derision that is mainstream and easy,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I am and will always be a HUGE Star Wars Geek and wanted to study film making. I really am not a… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
I'm kind of at the mercy of writers out there. I need a writer out there who wants to write a vehicle… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
“Some writers might tell you that writing is like a piece of magic - a process of creating something out of nothing,… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
