Let's stop reflexively comparing Chinese writers to Chinese writers, Indian writers to Indian writers, black writers to black writers. Let's focus on… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I don’t care what you write man, just make sure you make us sound sexy. Say that we looked like we’d just… — Nathan Followill Copy Share Image
“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who likes writing views 'The New Yorker' as the, you know, pinnacle of the publishing world. If you… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
The thing that has always baffled me about people's perception of my writing is the sense that I'm a very controversial, opinionated,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Chuck is definitely my favorite co-writer, and my best. It is really hard to make yourself vulnerable enough for somebody to get… — Lari White Copy Share Image
“This is what writing does to you: it makes you put everything under a microscope of metaphors and similes, surrounded by memories… — Ibraheem Hamdi Copy Share Image
I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Shane Salerno and I adapted my book Savages together, and I learned a lot about adaptation. I think it's an extremely difficult… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially… — Mark Romanek Copy Share Image
I think that writing is a process that tells you what you think. You sometimes actually don't know what your opinion is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And… — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
I've literally been in sessions with producers, writing for other people, and they're like, 'We need a song for this artist, and… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the… — George Ade Copy Share Image
“As I go off into the big black abyss of my future, I have to admit that I am terrified and also… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
“He was back at the point of departure, at the place that filled writers with dread and excitement, for this was where… — Felix J. Palma Copy Share Image
I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
“Every skillful writer foregrounds notable aspects of experience, details that might otherwise be lost in the mass of data that continuously bathes… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I think that as a director, especially when it comes to writing the script, which I also do, and I'm also the… — Jiang Wen Copy Share Image
If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown.… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
I used to joke about this but I've recently realized that I really believe it: I spent many years training myself to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I hate being called lazy, so when everybody gets up at half seven in the morning, I'm up at the same time.… — Nadine Shah Copy Share Image
I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control -… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
As a writer, I spend a lot of time alone, and I like it. I'm also a long-distance runner, and I love… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“The task, and the joy, of writing for me is that I can play with the metaphors that God has placed in… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Writing can be a bit like unfolding something...Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
We want to prove we are good writers or good business, good parents or good teachers. The world is very competitive and… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I'm definitely of the 'Harry Potter'-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation. And that's really all I read throughout my teen years, because I really devoted all… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
I'm one of those sad cases who've never wanted to be anything but a writer. I started writing my first novel when… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
I don't have some songwriting formula that I kinda go by. Usually it just comes by way of inspiration. Sometimes I'm inspired… — Natalie Grant Copy Share Image
I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan… — John Banville Copy Share Image
If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which,… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“She was a passionate reader, and she thought that reading was one of the noblest efforts of all; in contrast, she found… — John Irving Copy Share Image
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