There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view:… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the longer you do a character, the more the writers start to understand your kind of… — Chris Demetral Copy Share Image
“Another difference between amateur and professional writers, almost by definition, is that the latter more successfully engage their audience. It is partly… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
Will Arnett and I were never in the same room, but once I saw early animation we started writing music for that… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that,… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
“A mistake is the name we give to any action in which we perceive a difference between what we intended and what… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Well, I like him. There’s a darkness to him. But does he make it all the way through?” She shrugged. “It’s entirely… — Nancy Holder Copy Share Image
You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The hardest part is writing a song as a story. A song is so short and there are only so many words… — Giveon Copy Share Image
Half the stuff I've written was written when I was half asleep watching the David Letterman show when some boring actress was… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
For nearly a decade now, I've been teaching others how to thrive by filling their bodies with energizing vitamins, nutrients, minerals, antioxidants,… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
What really scares me is Alzheimer's or premature senility, losing that ability to read and enjoy and to write. And you do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink. What I've chosen, what's happened unchosen,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“There is one final point, the point that separates a true multivolume work from a short story, a novel, or a series.… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
“Most of all, kink comes up in my writing because that is, very simply, just the way the cat o’ nine tails… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Its gresham's law in operation is all walks of life and not just money: bad money drives out good money from circulation;… — APORVAKALA Copy Share Image
I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“I will not mention the name (and what bits of it I happen to give here appear in decorous disguise) of that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
To me, the act of writing itself is infinitely more important than any success I have achieved through it. Not that I'm… — Jacqueline Briskin Copy Share Image
“My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader.… — David Simon Copy Share Image
There are 500 reasons I write for children… Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics… They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“My greatest complaint with present-day sexual writing is that nobody seems to be having any fun. Sex is an ordeal, or it… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
[In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Both Springsteen and Michael Jackson, who had these huge productions, could always scale them back down to just a song and a… — James Bay Copy Share Image
“So it is written - but so, too, it is crossed out. You can write it over again. You can make notes… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You may be a serious writer if …. 10. your hard drive is littered with random notes and story ideas … but… — Kathy Disanto Copy Share Image
Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I want you to take a moment here and write down all the problems that are plaguing you at this moment, from… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
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