The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if… — William Styron Copy Share Image
What I’ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams,… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones… — Jane Pek Copy Share Image
“I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love,… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
As a Republican, I have listened to Democrats talk about the only two times we won the White House in like 200… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me… — Nanci Griffith Copy Share Image
For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past… — Jacqueline Emerson Copy Share Image
“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization.… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
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