I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“The resolve written in his eyes said no, but I could see exactly where I would have to push, and how hard,… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world… — John Green Copy Share Image
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
I'm thinking like the character in order to be as authentic as I can. But after a while, how would I be… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“Depression was my body's way of grieving the loss of my childhood dreams. Writing was my imagination's way of redefining them.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that. — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I wasn't the only person out there writing about pop culture and race, but I stayed true to my voice, and people… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
