Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis'… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
It gives me a great pleasure to see my reader's reaction to whatever I write.. I can be a great writer... My… — Aireen Pontillo Copy Share Image
My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. .… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
When you wrote a song way back in the day, you were writing material to play live. And you would buy the… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
I can't recall a story that played out exactly as I'd expected it to. That's one of the thrills of journalism -… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'Southeastern,' I'd just recently gotten sober. For me, that was a major turning point in my life. It… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I asked my media teacher, "You can make films out of sequence?" and he was like "Yeah! You can do whatever you… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
“Will found it funny that people balked at paying retail price for a book, something that a writer poured his or her… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most… — John Clute Copy Share Image
Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
“Create a guidebook of creative dreams You can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps… — Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK Copy Share Image
May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
The Bible is to the theologian what nature is to the scientist, a body of unorganized, or only partly organized facts. God… — Henry Clarence Thiessen Copy Share Image
There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be… — Chespirito Copy Share Image
“He who has perceived the material out of which the Promethean tragic writers prior to Euripides formed their heroes, and how remote… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I write so others might contemplate things out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears, to… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Symmetry suggests one myth, or significance: the drinking of writers coming from too much concentration, in solitude, upon feelings expressed for or… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If I had a script that I was ready to shoot tomorrow, I'd work on it every day until we got into… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
There have been days where I've had two writers' rooms or three writers' rooms going, and you walk back and forth. And… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“There would seem to be four stages in the composition of a story. First comes the germ of the story, then a… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
If you're going to cheat and take people's history and you're not writing the Bible, you ain't really so great. But if… — James McBride Copy Share Image
The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Really, whatever I was seeking and looking into in those days like creative arts, chant, the muse being in touch with the… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start… — Jeff Bollow Copy Share Image
“She (Tamara Thorne) has this fascinating way of wrapping herself around the things I write and bringing out the best in my… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions,… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
