“If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
“You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of fiction from writers just starting out, and the dialogue is a little bit forced, or it's almost… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
“Fuck the world with your attitude, to live for, needed for this life!” — Shivi Goyal Copy Share Image
“A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“this is where the poets will interject / they will say: show, dont tell / but that assumes most people can see” — Marwa Helal Copy Share Image
“When people think that one possibility is not equated to truth, they're neglecting the fact that truth is a choice whenever the… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books – it was the best… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“But about the drip drip of long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. They don't know what it is to construct an entire… — Zoe Heller Copy Share Image
In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in… — Geoffrey Cottrell Copy Share Image
There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities.… — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
I'm exhausted from the nonexistent bullshit my mind makes up. To suffer from imagination rather than from reality has got to be… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
