Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“There is, in Dr. Tillotson’s writings, an argument against the real presence, which is as concise, and elegant, and strong as any… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
“Liberty On my notebooks from school On my desk and the trees On the sand, on the snow I write your name… — Paul Éluard Copy Share Image
The pen may be mightier than the sword, but no one in Brave Heart carried one.~M.J. McGuire — MJ McGuire Copy Share Image
There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with. — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
I started to change. It was sort of a restaurant mid-life crisis, you could say. I lost a lot of confidence, not… — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself. — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“Never say you can't be a writer or a director, remember how well characters in your dreams said their dialogu.” — Dipesh Nepal Copy Share Image
“Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“What is a great spiritual practitioner? A person who lives always in the presence of his or her own true self, someone… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I would never want to write a character who was not thoroughly herself or himself. She's a very specific creature in my… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better… — Marcy Dermansky Copy Share Image
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with. — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
I write about things that tear me apart, and it's all very personal to me. It's funny to hear people disassemble the… — Robby Takac Copy Share Image
A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic Copy Share Image
What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it. — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such obscure entities as the… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction.… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be a daily critic who goes out every night and writes 300 word reviews, I wanted to… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
