I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Of course, the writer can impose control; It's just a really shitty idea. Writing controlled fiction is called "plotting." Buckling your seatbelt… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I first considered writing 'New York' in 1991. I'd been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife,… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not… — Jenni Rivera Copy Share Image
“Inside Critics The critical voices in our own heads are far more vicious than what we might hear from the outside. Our… — Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK Copy Share Image
You can't really go into TV thinking, 'Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I'm only kind of interested… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Strunk and White don’t speculate as to why so many writers are attracted to passive verbs, but I’m willing to; I think… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
“Moffat's prose is fine: clear and steady, with just enough sweeping statements about destiny and dragons to keep things well inflated. The… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“A good book, Marcus, is judged not by it's last words but by the cumulative effect of all the words that have… — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I'm always conscious when I'm writing a story that the women in my books need to save themselves. They don't need to… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Really good writing has purpose and that purpose should be to shape other minds to desire truth and a more noble purpose… — Susan Waterfield Copy Share Image
“All stories come from the writer's heart, and all hearts speak the same language, a wordless language ancient as time, and for… — Stan D. Jensen Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy,… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and… — Morten Tyldum Copy Share Image
“Anyone who does creative work is familiar with this problem, and in many ways active imagination is similar to writing, painting, and… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never… — John Irving Copy Share Image
We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta… — Ovid Copy Share Image
It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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