The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
“Very often the characters people respond best to have little parts of reality they can relate to.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else. — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters. — Tim Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song,… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
“The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
Eventually, I started writing down a bunch of titles that related to childhood themes and would pair it with an adult situation… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I find putting oneself out there difficult. I think writing and sharing writing require different skill sets. I want to be read,… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
“But perhaps the answer is to stop writing altogether, for when I do write, even now as I write this very sentence,… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I knew I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
I hadn't ever worked with an 'editor' until I was 26 - although that could be partly chalked up to the MFA… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary,… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
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