I feel there has to be a certain amount of improvisation as I'm writing, which means any idea or any commitment to… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat.… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
For all of my life, I've had this one song in my head, and I'm still trying to write it. I'm still… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
“Our freedom to say or write whatever we please in this country is holy to me. It is a rare privilege not… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
When you're a young writer and you look at people praising a big hefty anthology that has uncovered a long lost genre,… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
My Master... Say all you wish of me. It does not matter to me:Shallow.. Stupid.. Crazy.. Simple minded. It does not concern… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The… — Miguel Ferrer Copy Share Image
My advice to anyone with writerly ambitions and a demanding day job is to set aside a little piece of time, even… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write … so long as we write continually as well… — Patricia Goodson Copy Share Image
“The panther that has stalked you since you were a child is old now. No longer wild, and tired of guarding the… — Pat Schneider Copy Share Image
Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate.… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner. You evaluate the creative and how the show is run… — Robert Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“The best thing about being a writer is the ability to live vicariously through your own imagination, with no boundaries as to… — Dawn Goodwin Copy Share Image
“this was passed to writing and the content of a writing burned can no longer be handed back to memory, for writing… — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has put the leaving of… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“When you put yourself on the page, but it will never be good enough for anyone else, when your raw, bloody heart's… — Shveta Thakrar Copy Share Image
Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood.… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
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The more shows that are produced, the more writers are hired, producers are hired, actors are hired, directors are hired, it means… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
When I was writing or competing in individual sports, it felt unfulfilling and lonely. When I was able to find a group… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
When you're writing on someone else's show, you don't have to think as hard about nailing the perfect tone because you're kind… — Dan Mintz Copy Share Image
When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic,… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Confessionalism relates to writers of color. I think confessional poetry is in its way very Catholic, capital C. One of the formative… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I started writing 'Southern Baptist Sissies' right after I had written the screenplay for 'Sordid Lives', so that's when I started on… — Del Shores Copy Share Image
“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
