Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Well, if you want to be a writer, you’re going to have to start letting people read your stuff, you know.” — Kellie McAllen Copy Share Image
Partly because of the way I write - I don't work with an outline or in a straight line. I work where… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I understand pain very well, so I look for that in a role. If the characters are well-written, don't tell nobody, but… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
It’s time to write dangerous music. It’s time to take risks. It’s time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing… — John Mark McMillan Copy Share Image
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's. — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are many important books on oral history. My book was the launch title in the Understanding Qualitative Research series with Oxford… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
What I had thought were signs of a broken educational system - the seemingly random placement of commas, the spastic syntax, the… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
“Happiness keeps you Sweet , Trials keep you Strong, Sorrows keep you Human, Failures keep you Humble, Success keeps you Glowing, But… — Abhysheq Shukla Copy Share Image
I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed… — Jessica Abel Copy Share Image
I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“...she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularise, mentioned such works… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and,… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there,… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all… — Frances Beinecke Copy Share Image
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book… — Ted Bell Copy Share Image
I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
