We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that… — Lorde Copy Share Image
“You're not really writing until you're pretty sure you're the shittiest writer who ever lived.” — Alex Baze Copy Share Image
“The editor-writer relationship should not be thought of as adversarial.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake. — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking… — Tift Merritt Copy Share Image
“A good writer is also an avid reader. A good reader is also a vivid dreamer. A good dreamer is also a… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“He can see what move I'm planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who… — Sangu Mandanna Copy Share Image
African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that,… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of 'Gavin and Stacey,' but I think I have to write something else even to start to consider myself… — James Corden Copy Share Image
From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
“I spent all night weaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautiful when you wear my light.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture. — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
