“Reading makes me thirsty for writing. Writing makes me thirsty for reading. The cycle never ends.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“For me -- for pretty much every writer -- the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity.” — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think of the biopics I've written as exploring a more grown-up side of myself, through other characters' lives. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
“If my penis were a writer/director, it would be Woody Allen - small, neurotic, and, frankly, hit or miss.” — Matthew Norman Copy Share Image
A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When you write from your gut and let the stuff stay flawed and don't let anybody tell you to make it better,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I can't trace thematic similarities between Then We Came To The End and The Unnamed to a life event; I think it's… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat… — Ice T Copy Share Image
The songs I write should only be gauged by what other writers or peers are doing today. If the barometer for all… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up… — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You… — Eugene Schwartz Copy Share Image
