Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting. — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life. — Thomas Ian Nicholas Copy Share Image
In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“trying to translate into a language that's known a poem writ in the language of stone” — Kenneth White Copy Share Image
Writers don't need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities. — Barry Lane Copy Share Image
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
I'm an African-American writer, I'm a lazy writer, I'm a writer who likes to watch The Wire, I'm a writer who likes… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I spent most of my 20s working as an actor. I started writing and directing because I was frustrated with the types… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent. — Paul Lieberstein Copy Share Image
I always write after I think for quite a long time, so the actual writing time is rather short. I think a… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I can tell you that when Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, our writer, when she would work on some of these grander novels like,… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
If it has horses and swords in it, it's a fantasy, unless it also has a rocketship in it, in which case… — Debra Doyle Copy Share Image
I enjoy the optimism of design, even though we can see it as doomed. But I'm telling most people that I'm not… — Momus Copy Share Image
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
When I make music, I play it, I produce it, I write it. It's a very self-centered thing, not in a negative… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument. — Yanni Copy Share Image
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well. — Caroline Gordon Copy Share Image
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am. — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
“I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Writing picture books is like playing Tetris with only Z-pieces.” — Colleen A.F. Venable Copy Share Image
All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
