And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a… — James Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that all books aren't that way. I think that might apply to any book I was writing. The book… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I've moved away from writing about and describing actual experiences of sex work, whether mine or anybody else's, because the culture is… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're putting thought into what you want to express, and then you come up with it - it comes… — Catherine O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Other classical writers insisted that the tone and timbre of women’s speech always threatened to subvert not just the voice of the… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“If I were ever asked by some young, sensitive writer just starting out, what key lesson I've learned in life (which I'll… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I felt like if I didn't write about what happened to the young men here in the South of America, the same… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring… — Christopher Vokes Copy Share Image
What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That name, SUN BEAR, just sounds like an ideogram to me. Super resonant. By the way, this all might be related to… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and… — Adam Young Copy Share Image
“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is… — El-P Copy Share Image
Writers need to be tough. This is not for the weak of will. And we have to realize that, yeah, it's never… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Once— and most of the night definitely counts as once—you can write off as a mistake. But you do this again and… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It isn't enough for a book to be transporting or entertaining; it must also come from a place of knowledge and an… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
“I am Frustration. I am Memory-Lost. Sometimes I read a line a dozen times before it sticks. My creative force has slipped.… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local… — James Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
