If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we… — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
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There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Why didn’t I become an architect? Answer: Because I thought the sheets of paper on which I was to pour my dreams… — Iain Borden Copy Share Image
“I’ll tell you a thing that will shock you. It will certainly shock the readers of Writer’s Digest. What I often do… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down here. We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
“I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something to say and the power to say… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All archaeologists in Israel and Palestine make use of the New Testament Gospels. They do this because the Gospels exhibit verisimilitude. In… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
My fear, as a writer, is that I am a curiosity. That I can only bring you this peculiar condition from far… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“This is where we work, in the interstices of ignorance, the land of contradiction and silence, planning to convince you with the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The Circle... Ted Dekker is my inspiration, my favorite author, and my hero, so it should come as no surprise that my… — Luke Alistar Copy Share Image
“No one can learn to love by following a manual and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The Bible is all God's speech, as well as all mediated through human writers who wrote the individual books. It's a mistake… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis… — John Green Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition:… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
The beauty of my body is not measured by the size of the clothes it can fit into, but by the stories… — Sarah Copy Share Image
“Most people put off my mother's erratic behavior to the fact that she was a writer, as if that just explained everything.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“call “stuplimity” through a literature of exhausting repetitions and permutations, paranoia through a transcription-based poetry that continually raises the question of whether… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“I suppose that was an example of close attention to detail that is common to writers and artists. It is imperative, whether… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“I was impressed with Jack [Kerouac]’s commitment to serious writing at the expense of everything else in his life. At a time… — Sterling Lord Copy Share Image
Songwriting becomes a conscious attempt to delve into the unconscious. Even those writers who scoff at the concept of a spiritual source… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic,… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I love Dexter. I love Top Chef. I can't wait for it to come back. I love Friday Night Lights. I think… — Alyssa Milano Copy Share Image
Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a… — Roy Wood Copy Share Image
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