Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If I get to go crazy, since God can't be limited, than I would love to be part of a small team… — Cynthia Garrett Copy Share Image
“Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature--match writers off against each other and see who… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Writing: shitty first drafts. Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“What do I love most? Working with words. Words in a sentence are like pieces of a puzzle; you try out a… — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to write about madness. I always figure that whatever most embarrasses you is something that everyone can relate to,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
You have to be very clear with yourself about how you're going to spend your time. When a child is at school… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
The Internet and all its lures are much, much harder than anything I've ever encountered. If you're writing on a computer, the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Stuff just comes out all the time, sometimes when I sing live it really comes alive and I sort of... I write… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing lines over somebody's back… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
If you're a creative person, you'd better not read what people write about you, because if it's good it'll blow your head… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I can tell you that when Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, our writer, when she would work on some of these grander novels like,… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It helps to write as the character that I am trying to be, and try to journal every day as them. Once… — Brianna Hildebrand Copy Share Image
A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
If it has horses and swords in it, it's a fantasy, unless it also has a rocketship in it, in which case… — Debra Doyle Copy Share Image
The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I enjoy the optimism of design, even though we can see it as doomed. But I'm telling most people that I'm not… — Momus Copy Share Image
Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
When I make music, I play it, I produce it, I write it. It's a very self-centered thing, not in a negative… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
“If a man liked his friends' painting or writing, I thought it was probably like those people who like their families, and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
“Grandpa, I haven't remembered all your stories, but I've written a few of my own adn as soon as the rain stops… — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
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