I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
“Under fun’s new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don’t want… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but… — David Means Copy Share Image
People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“I really didn't write it with any intention of being published. If I'd known that was going to happen, I would have… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit,… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction,… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Now, I try not to read gossip as a rule. But the other day, a website ran an article with a picture… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
If I had an author superpower, I would like to have the ability to stop time for everyone else. I feel like… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“Before I start a film or a play, I try to build a world in my mind. An imaginative world which the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I used to write little rhyming words on the paper. I'd start rapping them at home, when I'd finish my homework. I… — Marvin Bagley III Copy Share Image
“I write because of the fragility of our existence. I write because it's my answer to impermanence. I write because it helps… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“All writers recognize this surge of striking; in its energies the objects of the world are made new, alchemized by their passage… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“In crisp, clean prose Amy Reed places the reader right into the heart and mind and life of a girl who makes… — M. Sindy Felin Copy Share Image
Maybe it's easier to have that desire guest-spot-packed album, for example, you're a rapper and you need someone to sing the hook.… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had… — Gary Sherman Copy Share Image
I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been… — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share Image
“It's a difficult path that we tread, us Indie self-publishers, but we're not alone. How many bands practicing in their dad’s garage… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its… — James Allen Copy Share Image
I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
No matter what, I'm never going to get an anthology from an actual publisher, though I could always score another music anthology.… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
“we cannot escape showing who we are. What we write and how we express it gives away as much information as our… — Susan Feehan Copy Share Image
I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
TV is the place that writers want to be. When you don't have a very strong indie market going on, talented writers… — Ayelet Zurer Copy Share Image
I think I was always writing books that had very clear scenic structures. I do tend to write in scenes. I do… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“The writer is a secret criminal. How? First because writing tries to undertake the journey toward strange sources of art that are… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because life, as Pablo Picasso averred, 'is a very bad novel', it has to be reworked through the writers' suffering into something… — Cirilo F. Bautista Copy Share Image
I'm friends with a lot of writers and so many of them say how much they hate signings and how they leave… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“Whenever you get a worry (a negative thought that won’t go away), write it down. The act of writing helps to crystallize… — Daniel G. Amen Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all… — Brendan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
