As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I never sat down and wrote, but what I do is kind of act as a dramaturge for the piece. I am… — Larry Charles Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've always been the sum total of my influences, and those are all over the spectrum: Rachmaninov, the Who,… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I am constantly reminded that we human beings are basically storytellers. More homo narrans than Homo sapiens. We see ourselves in others'… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
“float before I could swim. Ellis never believed it was called Dead-Man’s Float, thought I’d made it up. I told him it… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The… — Ivy Lee Copy Share Image
You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The only writing that was any good was what you made up, what you imagined. That made everything come true. Everything good… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“When I examine my mind and try to discern clearly in the matter, I cannot satisfy myself that there are any such… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, 'The Birds' - it is absolutely wonderful: the prose is so simple and… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I had to introduce a lot of people into my writing environment which I thought at first I would find really difficult,… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head.… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader,… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
“There is a point where, as a writer, you grow to hate your characters, their stupid motivations, and their whiny inner dialogues.… — Caris O'Malley Copy Share Image
As long as 85,000 women are raped every year and 400,000 sexually assaulted in England and Wales alone, it's hard to argue… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ...… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I write about spirituality not so we get strong from within and achieve some state of nirvana and then distance ourselves from… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“Congratulations Tomi Adeyemi on your breakout novel CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE. A project catching fire, such as this one has, is… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I don’t trust masters who can’t be down-to-earth. For me they’re like those eccentric poets who can’t write like everybody else. I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I kept saying to myself, this is a calling that God has given me. And so with intention I said, "Okay I'm… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
What's nice about writing and making films is that being able to see a film from the outside - from the inception… — Peter Vack Copy Share Image
Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and… — Arthur Young Copy Share Image
If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
