I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a… — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation… — Oliver Copy Share Image
When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I've got all the discipline as an actress, but none whatsoever as a writer. — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
I'm a decent writer, barely a decent guitar player, and a terrible singer. — Bobby Bones Copy Share Image
“Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.” — Piper Payne Copy Share Image
“As a writer, you must truly possess a love for words." "Yes, that's right," I agreed. "I've noticed that some authors favor… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe.… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
“We knew she [Sylvia] was unusual, because of the seriousness with which she was treated, the lofty importance of her job as… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
