I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I had a country upbringing in a predominantly Maori community, and that contrasted with a very multi-cultured arts community in the Aro… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half,… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Thank God, I'm actually infatuated and in love with what I do, therefore I am what I do. So I never have… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
My nutritionist says, 'If you bite it, write it.' Writing down everything that you put in your mouth really helps. I don’t… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't pick up the guitar for six months or so," "Other times I get away, go to a hotel or… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
The older I'm getting, the more I'm getting a writer's block or something. It's harder to come up with an idea that… — Alex G Copy Share Image
Recently, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talked about the ways the lives of human beings will be changed in the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I presented him with an African violet, which I saw as symbolically useful, though I’m not sure the others understood the subtleties.… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!'… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be a journalist, honestly. I always wanted to be a writer, and I thought the only way… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.… — Niyi Osundare Copy Share Image
All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a… — Jewel Copy Share Image
“When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Something seems to happen to people when they meet a journalist, and what happens is exactly the opposite of what one would… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Being a writer, I take thing seriously (not too seriously). I may be a young writer/self publisher, I do love to write… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
I had a lot of time to myself, and I would listen to a lot of music, mostly music that I knew… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In a way all writers are writing against death, because writing is an attempt to defy the passage of time, to refuse… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
“The more gifted of these individuals became writers or artists. Even though they were able to point to the truth in the… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
When I was writing some of songs for the record in Galapagos it was the feeling of being there I wanted to… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
Comedy in the past hasn't spoken to women because it wasn't written by women, and male writers don't make women three-dimensional characters.… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
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