The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Listen to what children have to say-their windows to the soul are unclouded. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
“Sweat, blood, and tears mean nothing in your writing if you’re not willing to burn what doesn’t work.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership. — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“Decolonising the Mind, by an important African writer and revolutionary, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.” — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire. — Francis Ray Copy Share Image
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The form in which thoughts occur to a writer is rarely the same as the form in which they can be absorbed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it,… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
“For instance, the writer of whom I speak indulges in the millionth mechanical repetition of the charge of mechanical repetition. He says… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to separate two types of people. On the left is a guy who loves my writing, and… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I write most of my stuff when I'm on a train or a plane, any mode of transport. I like trains because… — Eliot Sumner Copy Share Image
Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story,… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm… — Arthur Hailey Copy Share Image
“No one in a productive society wants you to know there ways of looking at the world other than their ways, and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids. — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can't put 'surreal fantasy' on a paperback. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion. — Elizabeth Reyes Copy Share Image
What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access. — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea. — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
In 21st-century storytelling all bets are off: anybody can do anything. We're all storytellers. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
