“My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
“We're pupils of the religions—Catholic, Protestant, Jewish . . . Well, the Christian religions. Those who directed French education down through the… — Louis Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Words are funny things - They are free until you use them.” — Darlenne Susan Girard Copy Share Image
“My task...is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“There's only one absolute rule in writing: None of us gets it right the first time. Revise, reverse, reinvent, re-vision.” — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“Be happy because no one is seeing what you do, no one is listening to you, no one really cares what may… — william gass Copy Share Image
“For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“V.S. Pritchett's definition of a short story is 'something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.' Notice the 'glimpse' part… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why the publishers in New York don’t take a tip from Hollywood and just publish the outlines of novels… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
“Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“I will take any liberty I want with facts as long as I don't trespass on the truth...We confuse facts with truth.” — Farley Mowatt Copy Share Image
“One of the few things I know about writing is this:spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, right away, every… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“On Writing About Nora Hawks I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of… — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“No... it never takes your breath away, telling you things you already know, laying everything out flat, as though the terms and… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Every day is a new day, every moment cherished was once a blank page” — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
