A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible. — Kesha Copy Share Image
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to. — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For me the path to the literary goes through the non - literary. For this reason it surprises me that I am… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
As a writer, I find it a literal impossibility to disengage from whatever the location might be, given how everything that eventually… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
“I’ve always had a dislike of any form of didacticism, especially when it becomes the dominant element in writing. Character and emotional… — Peter Taylor Copy Share Image
I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
When you teach, it's sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two - and then pick a time in… — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
I love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert - they write from the heart. But it's hard to find a country music lover… — Lucy Hale Copy Share Image
