I've translated two of Bae's novels, A Greater Music and Recitation, which are coming from Open Letter and Deep Vellum in October… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I made a career goals list for 2017 and it's so funny. I have low self-esteem or something, so I put both… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
“Messrs. Strunk and White don’t speculate as to why so many writers are attracted to passive verbs, but I’m willing to; I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Post Malone is one of my biggest inspirations. I just love his songs and his writing. He's a genius. Then person-wise, I'm… — Tate McRae Copy Share Image
I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
Make sure your family and loved ones don’t interrupt you during your writing time. If you’re a lawyer or doctor, friends don’t… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
I had done a couple TV pilots, and a friend of mine wanted to leave comics and come work in Hollywood, and… — Ed Brubaker Copy Share Image
I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“you can learn a lot about a person from their handwriting. All kinds of things. Like whether they are going to ruin… — Laura A.H. Elliott Copy Share Image
“When you've got a thing to say, Say it! Don't take half a day. When your tale's got little in it Crowd… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings,… — Blake Morrison Copy Share Image
It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The… — Dwight V. Swain Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
'Glee' is produced with three people and written by three people. In my mind, I don't believe there's any other show on… — Kevin Reilly Copy Share Image
I talk about folding it in often with Althea, my girlfriend. She's getting her doctoral degree at Berkeley and she talks about… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“Do the books that writers don't write matter? It's easy to forget them, to assume that the apocryphal bibliography must contain nothing… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I've had so many young girls come up to me after a show and say, 'How do I start putting my music… — Soccer Mommy Copy Share Image
I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“For I aint, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“When I'm drawing - and here drawing is very different from writing or reasoning - I have the impression at certain moments… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“I wish i could write them down, these little coloured parables or poems that live for a moment in some cell of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There's an old adage in writing: 'Don't tell, but show.' Writing is not psychology. We do not talk 'about' feelings. Instead the… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I want to do a stripped-down album. That style is actually where my heart is - storytelling and just letting the voice… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
