“When he was in a bad mood, The Writer went to the park. The only place he considered friendly. Not the bookshops… — Filippo Bologna Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Delia Sherman once told me that you never learn to write a story. You only learn to write the story you are… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you -… — Rilke Letters to a Young Poet Copy Share Image
People… they don’t write anymore – they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I.… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Never go into debt to become a writer. Always find other ways to support yourself so you can do the work you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
The Internet and blogging made writing somewhat more solitary and more splintered. It removes the whole sense of the magazine as an… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your… — Kathleen Edwards Copy Share Image
“Writers’ never-ending quest involves investigating genuineness while carving out narrative nonfiction. They must strive to reach great truths by recounting untold lies… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color… — Sigbjørn Obstfelder Copy Share Image
Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Objectifying your own novel while writing it never really helps. Instead, I guess while you're writing you need to think: This is… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I write songs by sitting around in bars, so drinking songs are a little obvious. It's surprising that I don't write entirely… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Remember that for all the books we have in print, are as many that have never reached print, have never been written… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“French writer Alexis de Tocqueville captured this sentiment, from a foreigner’s perspective, writing in 1831 after a tour of the nascent country… — Elizabeth H. Bradley Copy Share Image
A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When someone like Kurt Cobain or Jack White comes out, they didn't go, "He sounds just like Muddy Waters," did they? They… — Shingai Shoniwa Copy Share Image
So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I really had to decide why I was writing. I had no interest in going back to law; I very briefly -… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I feel like the books were just written like a movie. You read it and you can just kind of see everything.… — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
I think the writers give us different people to work with, different situation scenarios to be in and there's always that fun… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
I see so few scripts just because, for whatever reason, there just aren't that many good scripts with a young, teenaged girl.… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
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