Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" "Well, that would be boring,… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats -… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“I didn’t actually have to write a thing because the act of reading was my writing. I thought of myself as a… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I was totally taken in and totally taken by that myth starting in 1999, rather carelessly writing about this archive and starting… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Theatre tends to be more metaphorical and intense, as you're locked in one room and focused on one thing. Television can hop… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that's a whole other thing - but… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
I hate the tribal hatred thesis - in Yugoslavia and Rwanda and places like that they kill each other because that's just… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11… — Gustavo Santaolalla Copy Share Image
It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
“J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible." ("I have… — George Sand Copy Share Image
As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I don't believe that art and politics or social issues must be separated. In writing about marriage, for example, money can be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
My artistic goal was to write something that's one hundred percent real and true to me and to this world. I tried… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
I think for writers, I think it's really important to court eviction from your tribe: to expose things and to wake people… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
As soon as I sat down to write music, really, with Café Blue. I just can't think about that when I sit… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
“I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing?… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
One time I said to Jordan [Peele], in a text, "I will pick you up at 2:30. So if you're just standing… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“What do you think is my favourite book? Just now, I mean; I change every three days. "Wuthering Heights." Emily Bronte was… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body;… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
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