“Sesungguhnya, penulis yang bersemangat jauh lebih menjanjikan daripada penulis yang berbakat.” — M. Fauzil Adhim Copy Share Image
“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way. — Matt Hancock Copy Share Image
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows why another Latin American writer, Mario Llosa Vargas, one day punched Marquez in the face.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
Talent is a combination of perfect comic timing, diction, modulation, great script writing and most importantly, an invincible will, if you may… — Brahmanandam Copy Share Image
Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody… — William Henry Willimon Copy Share Image
There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I think anything thats creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that Im going through in my life. If youre… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“To achieve works of meaning, a writer (or any artist) must cut into himself and leave his soul on the canvas, exposed… — Mardra Sikora Copy Share Image
“To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.” — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
For me, writing clarifies things. It gives meaning, and it makes me see the connections. — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image
Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think. — Darcy O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
A man makes his reputation not by what he writes, but by what others write about him. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself. — Joe Pasternak Copy Share Image