Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don't impose political responsibilities on my fiction. The last thing I would ever want to do, for example, is write a… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“I pulled word after word from my core, like silk for a spider’s web, spinning a make-believe life. That’s why we read… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
“Hemingway once said that ‘there is nothing to writing, you just sit down at a typewriter and bleed.’ What Hemingway failed to… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
No one reads to hear someone complain about the weather or how poorly their children are behaving. You have to give the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I love a girl in her underwear, first of all. Secondly, I've been writing for them, so Nicole Scherzinger has been in… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“I often tell my students that there is creative reading, creative thinking, not just creative writing. He said a basketball game was… — Richard Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist; also I couldn’t spell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records… — Rico Love Copy Share Image
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Kids are smart: don't underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don't even try to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It's pretty inappropriate of fans to think they can expect any kind of narrative from showrunners or writers or actors. I just… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
I think the biggest advice I can offer is don't just pick one story and stop, write as much as you can,… — Dwayne McDuffie Copy Share Image
When you are writing the kind of criticism you hope you're writing, everything depends on keeping your calm or your cool. You're… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I never felt like I left, I think before anything I am a writer and that's something that I do almost everyday.… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money… — Mike White Copy Share Image
“Looking up occasionally to see rare cars crossing the high bridge and wondering what they'd see on this drear foggy night if… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
Writing relies on very few things, my friend. All you need to write is your brain, a way to convey the story… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I've never considered soundtracks for what I write. Nor have I considered computer drawing or painting. As a painter, I'm still trying… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
“If you cannot or will not imagine the results of your actions, there’s no way you can act morally or responsibly. Little… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they… — John Braine Copy Share Image
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The heartbreak that it might not happen wasn't something that I wanted to face with any more weight. Then, when I got… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
“All of these parallels between Mesoamerican and ancient western Eurasian writing testify to the underlying universality of human creativity. While Sumerian and… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer,… — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I don't want people to feel like they have to state something in a certain way because so-and-so might be around on… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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