“Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one.” — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it. — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
“In the real world, writing is not artificially separated into specific discourses. It is blended for effect.” — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“I live in different worlds. One world where I perform my duty as a part of society. My favorite is my world.… — Ria Tumimomor Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I still need to innovate, to break out-of-the-box, and be a force of change, but I have not figured out how to… — Charles Benedict Copy Share Image
If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Because here’s the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
When you do anything creative, you really have to live entirely in that world. I think my ability to do that is… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
Learning, traveling and comparing the world, writing outraged poetry, producing revolutionary art, demonstrating, holding the older generation-including their own parents and grandparents,… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
In 'Twilight,' you're setting up the world. You're introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn't… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big… — Mike White Copy Share Image
“To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
