“The poet can’t stand the quiet. She can’t stand the buzzing in her head. The murmur of memory. The poet picks up… — Trista Mateer Copy Share Image
Why are you uncomfortable with the supernaturalist worldview of the biblical writers? Evangelicals don't want to just say, "Well, the inspired writers… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
“When you start writing, you may think you will use the book to guide readers down certain paths and through certain themes.… — M.D. Cliatt Copy Share Image
“[Steven] King is an entertainment. King is a diversion. But when you try to take him as a guide to life, he… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I'd always hoped to write the story as a novel, but there was a long period when the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the… — Shane Jones Copy Share Image
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“A writer must stand on the rock of her self and her judgment or be swept away by the tide or sink… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
It's fashionable to use terms like 'sales funnels' to describe the sales process for many companies, and it is true that the… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on… — S. Ansky Copy Share Image
“The limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
. I did an interview earlier and somebody asked me if I [knew I] was onto something back when I was first… — Page Hamilton Copy Share Image
The key to writing for Richard (Pryor) was to just push his buttons and then know when to push the buttons on… — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully,… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Idly, I flipped through the ledger's pages, for I cannot resist a book set before me no matter its kind. Writing draws… — Kate Elliot Copy Share Image
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor,… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add,… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
![“[Steven] King is an entertainment. King is a diversion. But when you try to take him as a guide to life, he won't work. The circles he draws on the deep are weak and irresolute. And this is so in part because King...is a sentimental writer. In his universe, the children...are good, right, just and…” quote by Mark Edmundson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f77/mark-edmundson-35432_life_steven-king-is-an-entertainment-king-is_2191151.jpg)
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