“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.” — Jules Renard 1890 Copy Share Image
“Conditioning was something I always shied away from, now I've learnt that training never stops.” — Mark O'Brien Copy Share Image
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
For someone who wants to write a story, they should go on thinking about the story. When it comes up to a… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell,… — Josh Lawson Copy Share Image
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“I know that by what I write cannot change the wrong world, but I can change the wrong attitude of the world… — Gavriil Stiharul Copy Share Image
Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
“DYER. No, I am not of your Mind, for the Dialogue was fitted up with too much Facility. Words must be pluckt… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“She had been trying to be honest with him, thinking her honesty would be winsome and that he would come to rescue… — Susan Breen Copy Share Image
When I wrote the screenplay for 'Sleepwalk with Me,' I was imagining that another person would direct it. So I was using… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“Even in some older literature, such as in the writings of Byzantine historian Philostorgius in the fifth century, Ararat was suggested as… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
I did a lot of this through writing flashbacks. Many of the flashbacks took place at Cal's school and I eventually cut… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
