We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it — Les Back Copy Share Image
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing. — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good… — Donald Spoto Copy Share Image
“Our friend was slightly nervous; that went with his character as a student of fine prose, went with the artist’s general disposition… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?” Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter,… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I do want to write again. I hope to. But it's also important for me to realize, as I get older, that… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity. — Herbert C. Brown Copy Share Image
“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The key is you have to keep doing the right thing. Do the right thing and stay around long enough, and you'll… — Chazz Palminteri Copy Share Image
I'm always amused by the way questions are asked. "What did you intend?" That's not even a recognizable verb. You don't intend… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Well then – I see two ways of letting things take their course – Create one’s own sensations with the help of… — Jacques Vache Copy Share Image
“My conception of a novel is that it ought to be a personal struggle, a direct and total engagement with the author's… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their personal feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's beneficial to have that younger sensibility available to you during the writing process. — Mikey Day Copy Share Image
The Intuitive one can read where the Master doesn't write and listen where the Master doesn't talk. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything. — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time. — Joan Armatrading Copy Share Image
What would anyone want to write about me for? I'm just an old lady. — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
“When you write a book, you have total control of the universe and everyone in it.” — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
