“The questions that I ask myself, I think they're very much to do with reality. I would really like to have had… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in… — Arthur Plotnik Copy Share Image
My son is someone who wants to be a writer. My sons been writing for a long time, since he was 14,… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
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The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I try to do stories that make a difference -- stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to… — Ann Curry Copy Share Image
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Novelists lie for a living - what is a novel, after all, but an assembly of fibs paradoxically meant to illustrate something… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
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At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
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Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
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Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
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The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
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“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I can tell you that when Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, our writer, when she would work on some of these grander novels like,… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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