My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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“Only the learned read old books, and... now... they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Writing is something warm and dependable to snuggle up to when everything else is in flux. It's a little secret that you… — Judy Delton Copy Share Image
No one I interact with - except maybe for family and strangers at the Russian baths and other weird places I may… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
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We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“In conclusion, here's my advice to aspiring writers, journalists, and future lawyers - or anyone planning on working in the communications field:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
“The confusion inherent in the word comics has been apparent to those writing in the filed for years. The word has a… — R.C. Harvey Copy Share Image
And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage… — Carl Eckart Copy Share Image
When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. "This is the school, and this is… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when… — Anita Nair Copy Share Image
If I have my daughter in the car and they are making me nervous, I'll do whatever I have to do. I… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I do think some games are works of art, although their medium is visual rather than verbal. Both games and novels allow… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My family were Russian Jews. They got you to read as soon as you could. And then assumed you would read a… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand.… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
In Yale they convinced me I had no talent, even though I was always working. They cast me mostly as prostitutes and… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
“Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn also grappled with this tendency, but he came to the conclusion that “the line separating good and evil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I believe that what has been labeled as the politicization of entertainment —in fact, the politicization of storytelling— cannot be disassociated from… — Xavier Lastra Copy Share Image
Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I started out writing largely about my own sex life, but I always tried to bring that around to the bigger picture,… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
As I continue to teach, I have more to offer my students, and as I continue to teach, I have more to… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“Here the writer shows the progress and well-being of the line of Esau. He carefully notes that Esau is, in fact, “Edom.”… — John H. Sailhamer Copy Share Image
I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
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Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
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