“What I am really writing about, what I have always written about, is the idea of human freedom, human community, the real… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
You're always hoping you can attract a bigger audience, but at the same time, I'd hate to give up what I write.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is an ancient art. The lucent vibes of stories express what we cannot articulate directly. When we hear someone’s story, we… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed.… — Rhett Miller Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm… — Beck Copy Share Image
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
“Life gives us struggles first and reward later. And as a writer my life's purpose is to write and tell stories. Some… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too… I… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle.… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front… — Kate Baldwin Copy Share Image
Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know… — Colin Greenland Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. Ignore the authors… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my… — Ayumi Hamasaki Copy Share Image
“I know I can be accused of sacrilege in writing about political economy in the style of a novel about love or… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are,… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura',… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
“How does one become a writer, Harry? By never giving up. You know, Marcus, that freedom-the desire for freedom-is a war in… — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
When I'm constructing a poem, I'm trying to write one good line after another. One solid line after another. You know a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“I know who we are, and how we got that way. We are writers. We danced with the words, as children, in… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“And you are?” She fluttered her hand over her face and brushed a wisp of light brown hair from her brow. The… — Anita Philmar Copy Share Image
The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about.… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a… — Charles Buck Copy Share Image
I was probably 16.I played - I tried to play these songs that I had written. And, this was a common theme… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect… — Billy Gardell Copy Share Image
