The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a bit like surfing," he said. "Most of the time you're waiting. And it's quite pleasant, sitting in… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Forget what they say about “write what you know.” Write what excites your imagination, and the knowledge you need can be acquired.… — Charles Kowalski Copy Share Image
“Bye-bye. Nice knowing you. But if you are waiting for that perfect idea to strike like lightning during a dust storm (I… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
In the end, it's about the reality. You want something that's believable in the performances; you want something that's believable in the… — Matt Czuchry Copy Share Image
The link between Vreeland and Guggenheim is their mutual sense of reinvention and transformation. That made something click inside of me as… — Lisa Immordino Vreeland Copy Share Image
all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
“I find it’s more fun to write about something that you don’t know completely and that you will discover on route. A… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
Good leaders, competent leaders must see it as primary task to create friendliness. This something within the scope of most people. Now… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I'm not very good in the mornings and often stay up late writing, so I get up at about 10am if I'm… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest… — Alante Kavaite Copy Share Image
I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it… — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but… — Ursula Hegi Copy Share Image
Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
After I quit being a lawyer in '95, I was having a lot of trouble writing. Then I read somewhere that Willa… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and rather than just doing one thing when I make an album,… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel.… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie,… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
“Leave off driving your composers. It might prove to be as dangerous as it is generally unnecessary. After all, composing cannot be… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
I thought that deserved a book and feel like the door needs to be open so people can say, "Ok, here we… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
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