“When I write, all those that we don’t know we can be write themselves from me, without exclusion, without prediction, and everything… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“I love telling stories for a living. The process of writing has its frustrations, but also its joys (there’s no high like… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't… — Nancy Arroyo Ruffin Copy Share Image
I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. I found it incredibly difficult, doing that kind of sales… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“MURDERED The writing continued until the driver's side glass was clear, entirely swept clean by an invisible finger, until there were so… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I give a shy smile. They are staring at me and I start to feel self conscious. I have a god feeling… — Jade Copy Share Image
When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I've always been more than a little mystified by poets who seem to think talking to people as directly as possible is… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you're an artist, your personal life and your professional life kind of blend together. I'm writing from home so I don't… — Daryl Wein Copy Share Image
You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
People I admire have two qualities: a kind of simplicity, and generosity of spirit. It seems to me that the more impressive… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Socially and politically, we seem to be living in dire times, worse times than in the past. But there were far worse… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and… — Cirilo F. Bautista Copy Share Image
“He wrote because he liked to write; he did not abridge, because he cared not to abridge. He sat down, he took… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
“Eventually Frances was credited with writing 325 scripts covering every conceivable genre. She also directed and produced half a dozen films, was… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
“It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“More seriously-and this is probably why there has been a lot of garbage talked about a lost generation-it was easy to see,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Writes Native American storyteller Ray Buckley: A child relates storytelling . . . to human contact, and that contact becomes as much… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing],… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
In my 30s I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going to the gym… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“And I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger. I… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“I’m mesmerized by lipstick prints on coffee cups. By the lines of lips against white pottery. By the color chosen by the… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
![“Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said I'd miss the hundredth anniversary unless I pumped the thing out in six months, because I'd been delaying and dilly dallying for so long. So he both inspired me to…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0f3/jeffrey-rosen-13180_anniversary_louis-brandeis-really-inspired-me-to-wri_110490.jpg)
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