The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty. — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man. — Gerald Jonas Copy Share Image
Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written. — Morley Callaghan Copy Share Image
As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and… — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“When I started writing I was a sick teenaged fuck inside who partly thought I was the new Marquis de Sade, a… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
“That kind of thinking [that writers must alleviate their guilt for leading a creative life] is based on the idea that the… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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