“Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I don't regret writing my book at all. I wrote it for the United supporters to give them a proper insight into… — Jaap Stam Copy Share Image
The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
The idea that you would read Jesmyn Ward for credentials is, like, you've missed the point of the beauty of her writing… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
When you teach, it's sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two - and then pick a time in… — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
I love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert - they write from the heart. But it's hard to find a country music lover… — Lucy Hale Copy Share Image
“I’ve always had a dislike of any form of didacticism, especially when it becomes the dominant element in writing. Character and emotional… — Peter Taylor Copy Share Image
Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process.… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me.… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
When I write, I never think of segments as chapters; I think of them as scenes. I always visualize them in my… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
In Britain, we need to start presenting the option of being a writer in front of black women. We need to present… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree… — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing… — Nick Heyward Copy Share Image
“Nothing expresses Kafka’s innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of “writing as a form of prayer”: he was… — Ernst Pawel Copy Share Image
I was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Part of the reason I'm writing it is to try to figure out what that is myself. It's not like I came… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
My first book came out again - the re-issue from 2001. I was rereading it to make sure that I didn't miss… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of whether the reviews of your books are good or bad, it's about being taken seriously, both as… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
