People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
My writing goal is just this desperation to get as much done as possible. It's never a comfortable, relaxed thing. Especially because… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The biggest misconception is that I only write about shitty people. Or that I'm trying to be shocking. I just think people… — Leslye Headland Copy Share Image
“Writing a personal essay or memoir addresses how a person thinks and behaves in the context of society’s prevailing moral and ethical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
My favourite authors are John Grisham and Jeffrey Archer. Grisham rapidly established himself and now completely owns the legal space of fiction… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build… — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
I do write, I enjoy it. But I like acting. I wanna be in front of the camera as much as I… — Rob Riggle Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. That's who I am, at my core. I'm a writer, and then I learned production and administration, along the… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
Fate is a story that's been written for you by somebody else. By your parent's genes, by what happened to you when… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did.… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
“In the Bible, God uses several different types of writing to convey his truth. There are narratives (often with commentary), preaching and… — J Stafford Wright Copy Share Image
“So for me the creative world isn’t what you do after your day job, though many professional musicians do this to make… — Jamie Freveletti Copy Share Image
You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
“Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident,… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“I die with the dying light, yet shine brighter as the darkness approaches. Soon I’ll be whittled to bone and stripped clean… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life… — Arthur Hailey Copy Share Image
As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
“My salvation is to let all this roll over me, to write, write and write some more. To hammer keys until I… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
A traveler amid the scenery of the Alps, surrounded by the sublimest demonstration of God's power, had the hardihood to write against… — George Barrell Cheever Copy Share Image
“I'm an alien in my own world, a writer without words, a musician without a piano, a magician without a wand. I… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
“when I am writing a book, I’ll go to sleep with a plot hole in my story that I don’t know how… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky, man. Like you say, though, the writing is what kicked all that in and made it possible. It's… — Tony Joe White Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times photo sessions is just a test, maybe, for models. Sometimes it's for money. I'm going to… — Richard Kern Copy Share Image
“I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
