“I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
“Writers of the world, if you’ve got a story, I want to hear it. I promise it will follow me to my… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write about.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Although I am capable, through long dabbling in blue magic, of imitating any prose in the world (but singularly enough not verse—I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason I'm a comparatively slow writer, something… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, most of us have not been taught how to be responsible for our thoughts and feelings. I see this… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
“If words are to be uttered, they would be from behind the partition. Unaccountable is distance, time to transport from this present… — Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Copy Share Image
I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“A novelist's job is almost to be a stupid as possible, except in the cunning moment when you need to structure something,… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
It's not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, "The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
“Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I'm struck by how much they see and how much they know… — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
You're looking for ways always as the writer to bring readers into intimacy, you with them with you. Photos can sometimes do… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I've been the desperate writer before. I wrote a novel, and they paid me for it, and I've had those calls from… — Tom King Copy Share Image
Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“Summer Between Terms" The day's so calm and muggy I sweat tears, the summer's cloudcap and the summer's heat... surely good writers… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“I’d be happy to give special treatment to a dedicated school teacher, or even someone like William Faulkner if he was still… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I waved my hand in front of my face, obi-wan style. "I am not here." Niall's mucas glands kicked into overdrive. "Eoin's… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it… — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Even if you're trying to remain objective, even if you're trying not to mount any campaigns or endorse anything, when you cover… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs.… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
Tove Jansson was the most successful Finnish illustrator and writer of children's books of her day, and she was the most widely… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Actually, I never tell for whom my songs are written. It's a kind of superstition! I started writing songs for not having… — Enrique Iglesias Copy Share Image
In my own life, I had gone from Maryland State Honors Chorus and writing and singing my own songs to a musical… — Shervin Pishevar Copy Share Image
“The best way a writer can find to keep himself going is to live off his (or her) spouse. The trouble is… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
