Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
I agree that all kids of all colors love hip-hop. My point in writing the book was to raise questions about the… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
She gave me Heath's number and I called ASAP! It rang a couple of time beofre Heath answere. Hey Madi! This is… — Jade Copy Share Image
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we… — John Updike Copy Share Image
As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
“Charlie Davis finds her voice, and her solace, in drawing. I find mine in writing. What's your solace? Do you know? Find… — Kathleen Glasgow Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid back in Moscow, Russia, I've always thought I would become an artist or a folk dancer… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
In the corporate world, there is no ground more fertile for appearing smart than the rich earth that is electronic communication. Your… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
When I first met the Rev. Al Sharpton in 1993 as a cub editorial writer at the New York Daily News, he… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
My mind goes really quickly and I tend to talk really fast, as you've probably heard, I sometimes lose track of my… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In college, I'd gone abroad to get away from a campus where I felt I didn't fit in. And I started writing… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Probably this has always been the case: once an action is recounted, for intransitive ends, and no longer in order to act… — Barthes Copy Share Image
Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
“People tell you to write what you know, but I've found that writing what you know is much harder than making it… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Ewan McGregor and I said this to each other after we saw The Ghost Writer. Every time Roman Polanski did a "No,… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“The book was sloppily written in many parts (the words came too quickly and too easily) and there was hardly a noun… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write songs about love because, above all, love is the most human thing we have together. Feelings are a part of… — Yuna Copy Share Image
“From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I just think of myself as a writer. Yes, I'm a woman. And I'm a writer. The main challenge is that I… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Before computers were everywhere I used record books, the old-fashioned way. I loved to cram, and I still love to cram, anything… — Steve Bunce Copy Share Image
I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
When you have filmmakers like Justin Simien, writers, producers, actresses like Lena Waithe, who are people of color, they're creating their own… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to entertain people, and when I was in school, I was interested in creative writing, but wrestling was always… — AJ Lee Copy Share Image
My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I came to writing mysteries through poetry and still think that a well-constructed mystery is very much like a well-constructed sonnet. Both… — Margaret Maron Copy Share Image
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