I spent the morning smashing fliesI killed one fly against the doorjamb. Another I stalked into the kitchen...A third fly wavered by… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
“I never knew what an extraordinary thing it could be to write a book. In the first place, the characters take the… — Rachel Ferguson Copy Share Image
I like making things. I enjoy putting words and images on a blank space. There should be joy in the writing itself… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
I can start with the idea of taking until you can take off, through the idea that all of my writing foregrounds… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“At bottom, for me, the act of writing is a sort of dialogue with God. I say with God, but I am… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I started with "Pickman's Model," because it was about Boston. I mean, what I loved about [H. P. Lovecraft], at first is… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
When I'm constructing a poem, I'm trying to write one good line after another. One solid line after another. You know a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“How does one become a writer, Harry? By never giving up. You know, Marcus, that freedom-the desire for freedom-is a war in… — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura',… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
“I know I can be accused of sacrilege in writing about political economy in the style of a novel about love or… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are,… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my… — Ayumi Hamasaki Copy Share Image
Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect… — Billy Gardell Copy Share Image
“And you are?” She fluttered her hand over her face and brushed a wisp of light brown hair from her brow. The… — Anita Philmar Copy Share Image
I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about.… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I was probably 16.I played - I tried to play these songs that I had written. And, this was a common theme… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a… — Charles Buck Copy Share Image
There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“I know who we are, and how we got that way. We are writers. We danced with the words, as children, in… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing… — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
“Why we write. Because art blows life into the lifeless, death into the deathless. Because art's lie is preferable, in truth, to… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
When I look back I either feel I did this mistake while shooting or writing. Eventually you try and make sure you… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
“I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, by manipulating them and breaking their rules. Some of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Ozzie Boone...insists that I keep the tone light in these biographical manuscripts. He believes that pessimism is strictly for people who are… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“James Cain – faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naïf,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I wake up in the morning, or the middle of the night when an idea comes through. My songwriting style, basically I… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
“When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Today, of course, popular culture is on a culinary binge; and so much personal writing is now devoted to gazing back upon… — Laura Shapiro Copy Share Image
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