When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I really don't know why people have so much trouble now writing about religious faith. It is true that clichés can override… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Right now I'm sick of acting, so it's like, Maybe I'll do writing for a bit. Then, when I'm tired of writing,… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia is so conservative. At first there were photographs of women I took that I couldn't publish - of women without… — Olivia Arthur Copy Share Image
“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“It is not the task of a writer to 'tell all,' or even to decide what to leave in, but to decide… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
One of the most painful things for me was Jay Leno, Jay Leno going back on the air and saying to people… — Edward Allen Bernero Copy Share Image
“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see… — Brian A. McBride Copy Share Image
I would say Jodie Foster because she's not just an actress. She's a director, she's a producer, she's a writer. She's conquered… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
There's no subject you don't have permission to write about. Students often avoid subjects close to their heart ... because they assume… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
“I always instruct my students to write a great deal. Write a journal. Take notes. Write when you are feeling wretched, when… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I write each song individually and each one calls for individual musicians, You sit around and wonder who can we get to… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
“If you have a painting in you, paint. If you have a song to sing, sing. Don’t judge your creation. Just create… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week.… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The artist's transcendence is achieved through success at diagnosing and naming the maladies of the age. Artists tell a different sort of… — Gregory E. Ganssle David LaRocca Copy Share Image
There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
The idea of me writing something that I'd get to be in as well was not what I saw coming. I do… — Erin Foster Copy Share Image
If we are serious about enabling those who want to acquire what we have called standard English then first we should be… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a… — David Hare Copy Share Image
“To write, for example, a crime that is horrible but which somehow 'resembles' the butterfly, which would be light and fine like… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt,… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
