The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart. — Adrianne Palicki Copy Share Image
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can only write so many pop songs before they all sound the same. I got to a point where something overtly… — Dylan Baldi Copy Share Image
What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities,… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is… — Max Tundra Copy Share Image
A story works when there's momentum, life behind the words. Some stories have this and others don't, and it's difficult to say… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I'd been on everybody else's show and there was always a preinterview. Somebody would come with a tape recorder and you'd talk… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
My mother inculcated wisdom in us, and I want to preserve her wisdom in writing. — Govinda Copy Share Image
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that. — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
YouTubers are not taken as seriously as the written press, which is strange. — Marques Brownlee Copy Share Image
Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.” — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).” — J.M. Varner Copy Share Image
