By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“When writers come here they walk about smelling everything because New Orleans is, above all, a town where the heady scent of… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“The most difficult thing about writing, I'm discovering, is not the act of constructing the sentences themselves. It's deciding what to put… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
“The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
wanted to highlight that to a certain extent and go deeper into that direction. I also try to write each song in… — Jason C. Miller Copy Share Image
To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
“Don't say it is too hard or you can't find the words and please don't tell me there isn't enough time in… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
'The L-Word' was such a great show because of the amazing writing and characters, but maybe because it was such a new… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Well, I didn't read My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt very carefully. I was away during a lot of that, in the war… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and… — V. Vee Copy Share Image
I would prefer that, rather than sitting down and giving someone advice, I would way rather write a song about what I… — Anthony Green Copy Share Image
I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
“I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic, or a thousand words from… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping… — Elaine Paige Copy Share Image
“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
“It was in this man's class that I first began to wonder if people who wrote fiction were not suffering from some… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
When I was at McGill medical school, there was a writer, Ted Rosenthal, who used to write for the New York Times… — Dafydd Williams Copy Share Image
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart.… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
