Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
"On Script" is one of my favorite songs I've ever written. I'd just been jamming on it one day, and again I… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
“...the job of the spiritual memoirist is to read the world like a book. Medieval monks believed the natural world was a… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
“I can't believe how many students don't read. They want to be writers, but they haven't read anything at all. They have… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“So why does our writing matter, again?" they ask. Because of the spirit, I say. Because of the heart. Writing and reading… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
“NOTICE Persons attempting to find a "text" in this book will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a "subtext" in this book… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is possible for a writer to make, or remake at least, for a reader, the primary pleasures of eating, or drinking,… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand--what I could touch, hold,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“If Paul brought the first generation of Christians the useful skills of a trained theologian, Origen was the first great philosopher to… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing for a younger audience is that they will give it to you straight with their responses. They'll… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk.… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
It's just like an idea, like a chorus, and then we just jam on it - it happens in loads of different… — Luke Pritchard Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, we used to play this thing called 'the writing game' with our father. My brother and I… — Owen King Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter whether the bride or the bridegroom writes the letters of thanks for wedding presents provided that these go out… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“This is our skin and nobody has the right to crumple us like a paper only to find another skin to write… — Heema Shirvaikar Copy Share Image
When I wrote Wakolda at first I wasn't conscious that I was writing about something so close to or that had so… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
As you get older you don't want to just do the same thing, otherwise there's not much point. I think it's more… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the… — Brad Falchuk Copy Share Image
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I've found a bit of success in my career, and I'm very relieved by it, but the success that comes after a… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
One nice thing about putting the thing away for a couple of months before looking at it is that you start appreciate… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
I like things that are contradictory or seem one way but are another way. I think it's more genuine. It's the way… — Memory Tapes Copy Share Image
Make lists. Write down the things that give you power. Write down the things that take your power away also. Make lists… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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