Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
So, if I'm no cheerleader of sports, why write a chapter about it? Sports do have some positive impact on society. They… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are… — Caroline Gordon Copy Share Image
I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I started writing my own symphony. I wrote about a page and a half. My mum and dad took it into music… — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait,… — Jake Owen Copy Share Image
When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?' -'To catch them between the… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
The concept of writing a novel and not knowing where it's going - I don't know how to do that. Novels are… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
The thing is, for me, as a fiction writer, I don't think there's a finer testament to our lives than this thing… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Maybe because I began as a writer, I have a good ear for dialogue, and maybe being an English major - and… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
As a writer and as a human being, Susan Dworkin has always had the ability to draw us into new dreams of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
“To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the… — James Carse Copy Share Image
“The book should be the written counterpart of the unwritten world; its subject should be what does not exist and cannot exist… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Over the past decade I have watched many friends go through graduate school and write dissertations. Through that process, I have seen… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
“Juliet and Romeo Awake the scene, a twilight chamber’d dream, Two angels both alike in dignity: One imaged misadventure on the screen;… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose.… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
“Even if we grant that digital natives think and learn somewhat differently than older generations, we may be doing them a disservice… — Timothy VanSlyke Copy Share Image
Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
People do amazing things for love. Books are full of wonderful stories about this kind of stuff, and stories aren’t just fantasies,… — Mahbod Seraji Copy Share Image
