The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I write to remind myself of the pain. My words represents the tears that have fell, the paper resembles the words and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“You, the reader, make the book, but the book does not in itself exist between these decomposing covers. You read the script,… — Jason Henderson Copy Share Image
It's coming home for me as a writer, which means that, with my friends, I'd have to be able to write through… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown… — Alfred Smee Copy Share Image
“The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in the smaller, more tedious cities, to those… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
The songwriting community in Nashville really is all about your talent. It's not about your image, and you have to be humble.… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
“In Western languages, reading and writing involve turning from left to right, and therefore exercise the brain’s left hemisphere. Written language, invented… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of… — Stefan Merrill Block Copy Share Image
I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I'm interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“The first thought of writing this book came to me two years ago after I had driven through the mining district of… — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
I used to think there was something dirty about being paid for something which is a sacred thing to do. I can't… — John Tavener Copy Share Image
My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I… — Anne Reeve Aldrich Copy Share Image
Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they have opinions; they… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you push in every time there's a big moment, then the tenth time you push in, you're not going to get… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I have to live to write. But I try to discipline myself into writing on the spot as well. I think it's… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Context is everything in both narrative and real life, and while the accusation is never that these creators deliberately set out to… — Foz Meadows Copy Share Image
It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
“It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world… — Charles Lambert Copy Share Image
A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much, I… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write… — Nina Gordon Copy Share Image
I started writing songs so late and I had so many day jobs - jobs just to pay the bills. So, when… — Joshua Radin Copy Share Image