Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I thought to myself, who is this excellent man Van Doren who being employed to teach literature, teaches just that: talks about… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and… — Alex Chilton Copy Share Image
I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand,… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an… — David Rabe Copy Share Image
“There are Christian fiction writers and then there are Christians who write fiction. There is Christian fiction, then there is what some… — E.N. Joy Copy Share Image
When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant,… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that can save the novel, it is to make it independent of cinema, to narrate in a way… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Writers can get very angry when an actor says, "I don't know, I don't feel very comfortable with this line." Sometimes though,… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
A lot of my students have been quite notable. Notable in both the personal sense - people who have changed my life… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
In any creative endeavor, you do have to sort of take your shots. Nobody is going to beg you to go into… — James Franco Copy Share Image
A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things."… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Her journal is my journal. All mine is stale reading now. She has written down all my thoughts and forestalled me! Already… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
I tend to write three to four hours a day, depending - oftentimes very late at night. When I write on Twitter,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“GIRL, write YOUR book dammit. Who cares what people think? If writers in the past cared what other people thought we'd still… — Madeline Sheehan Copy Share Image
The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy,… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
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