“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The author is at one end of the experience of writing and the reader is at the other, and the book is… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Spectre' is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest… — Ivan Klima Copy Share Image
Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there are writers that do that,… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
“To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone… — Chris Stocking Copy Share Image
But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might… — Maria Lenhart Copy Share Image
“I still wanted to prove that I was the best of all the second-rate writers. I refused all further requests to write… — Koonchung Chan Copy Share Image
I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because… — Alonso Duralde Copy Share Image
At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I am the contrast. I am forever the crack in the window that lets the winter in. I am forever the moment… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“When a writer first begins to write, he or she feels the same first thrill of achievement that the young gambler or… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“The realization that a decline in the moral state impedes the flowering of literature is a feeling unique to the Jewish people.… — Rabbi Kook Copy Share Image
“This is what Laura loved about literature. You could see things in it that perhaps weren’t there, but might be. And even… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
