“Nothing ever really ends. That’s the horrible part of being in the short-story business—you have to be a real expert on ends.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“Until you're about the age of twenty you read everything, and you like it simply because you are reading it. then between… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The Cheers writers were the finest in television. But I felt like I was repeating myself; it bothered me a little bit.… — Shelley Long Copy Share Image
I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Books give us pleasure not because they make us comfortable, though some good ones may, but because they entertain us, they make… — William McPherson Copy Share Image
I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's… — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
When I get into the moment of actually feeling like I want to write, to finish something, I do what I've always… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I stayed… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary job--that is, no one can help you with it, bu there's nothing lonely about it. I have always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each big idea like that is an operating system upgrade," she says, smiling. Comfortable territory. "Writers are responsible for some of it.… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like… — Gardner Dozois Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle.… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front… — Kate Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too… I… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. Ignore the authors… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know… — Colin Greenland Copy Share Image
Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is an ancient art. The lucent vibes of stories express what we cannot articulate directly. When we hear someone’s story, we… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
You're always hoping you can attract a bigger audience, but at the same time, I'd hate to give up what I write.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
“Life gives us struggles first and reward later. And as a writer my life's purpose is to write and tell stories. Some… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm… — Beck Copy Share Image
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed.… — Rhett Miller Copy Share Image
I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and… — Mirah Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“What I am really writing about, what I have always written about, is the idea of human freedom, human community, the real… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
