“You will and should do everything in your power to improve your actual writing skills. You’ll work hard to create characters that… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“When I examine my mind and try to discern clearly in the matter, I cannot satisfy myself that there are any such… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Things have changed in Latin America now. We mostly have democratic governments in Latin America, so the position of the writer has… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We're sorry, but no... and then more beautiful things. It's a shit sandwich with branston… — Kate Inglis Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
“The writer doesn’t need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. I’ve never known anything good in writing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
To me a good book is like a quiet friend—a friend who’s happy to share thoughts and feelings with you, who’s always… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
“Quite a number of writers comment on the decidedly human character of the fairies, but it must be obvious that practically all… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
Blogging has mostly been an opportunity to react more immediately to experiences to try out ideas that I may end up using… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“The limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day - not long and difficult projects,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
“Write a haiku of your problem Can you express your problem in a different and creative way, for example, with a poem?… — Kim Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
I don't remember reading much at all during the writing of Eileen. I go through several years-long dry spells and I don't… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“History deals with situations and figures not imaginary but real. It demands therefore a combination of qualities unnecessary to the poet or… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
“Writing was never work for me. It had been the same for as long as I could remember: turn on the radio… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
There was this one model in French Elle. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be her. She was brunette… — Rae Earl Copy Share Image
This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“I’ve used the common wooden pencil in some of my writing as an example. When I ask audiences which is “simpler”, a… — Brad Cox Copy Share Image
“Proponents of established norms often push rules like 'Write what you know' on new writers. In truth, everything we write is about… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a real writer, you can put it this way, but I was lazy. So I thought that cinema… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
Read Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. Then do what it says, including the tasks you think are impossible. You will particularly… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I'd go to the African-American section in the bookstore, and I'd try and find African-American people I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
One of my favorite pieces of advice about being a writer came from a very formative teacher I had as an undergraduate,… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“No writer in the world agonizes over words the way a scientist does. Terminology is everything: we identify something by its established… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you.… — Gail Levin Copy Share Image
“It's not a silly pursuit to read beyond what's handed to you, to seek out new voices and leap over the usual… — Nova Ren Suma Copy Share Image
A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
“Great travel writing consists of equal parts curiosity, vulnerability and vocabulary. It is not a terrain for know-it-alls or the indecisive. The… — Tom Miller Copy Share Image
I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
“Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible, it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
