Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Do not compare your love story to those you watch in movies.. they are written by script writers.. and yours is written… — Aisan Copy Share Image
You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“The most important piece of writing advice: Have something to say. Whenever I have trouble writing, it’s because I’m trying to write… — GRETCHEN RUBIN Copy Share Image
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Writers can express ideas and emotions that are important to them but have no other means of expression. Some of these ideas… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“There’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially,… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
“Like Wide Sargasso Sea and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, fanfiction asserts the rights of storytellers to take possession of characters and… — Anne Jamison Copy Share Image
“For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
“Written in pain, written in awe By a puzzled man who questioned What we were here for - Oh! You Pretty Things ” — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer. — Will Self Copy Share Image
I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
What makes me a believer is that from time to time, going back almost as far as my memory will go back,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“For some, vampires are still firmly in the 'evil, scary' column. However, in recent decades, vampires also run the gamut from evil… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my… — Reclaiming my Life Isabella Koldras Copy Share Image
Before computers were everywhere I used record books, the old-fashioned way. I loved to cram, and I still love to cram, anything… — Steve Bunce Copy Share Image
When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image