How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What happens with writing a song and demoing it, for me the demo always becomes the master. — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for… — Alex Karpovsky Copy Share Image
I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's a tradition that a writer will try to plant his flag in a certain city and protect that. The way to… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
For me, whatever you write about should be worthy of your attention, worthy of your gifts. That's very important. — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about falling in love and why it can't last but that the same time how it lasts forever... — Dawsons Creek Copy Share Image
I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
As an online journalist, newswire journalist, newspaper writer, I wrote every day. My whole thing was, 'I have to write and report… — Om Malik Copy Share Image
“You can be anything in Pittsburgh, a stripper, a writer, a student, a bartender, or something else, or everything else, all of… — Dave Newman Copy Share Image
I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that… — Gillian Welch Copy Share Image
If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes… — Emerson Spartz Copy Share Image
I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things,… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
