If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Zen holds that the faith must be based not on the dead Scriptures, but on living facts, that one must turn over… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
And I could see the writing on the wall. Evidence of little hands Picasso with a purple crayon and I tried to… — Mark Harris Copy Share Image
'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
“I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a… — Kirk Wilson Copy Share Image
I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be,… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
You filled the void they been missing or help fit where they belong. Helped 'em up when the hope was gone,lent a… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to. — Tony Earley Copy Share Image
We write for those who get the musical jokes. But for those who don't, there is always something else going on. That's… — Richard Hyung-ki Joo Copy Share Image
“How can I demonstrate [...] that I have glimpsed somebody's future recollection?” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I eat, breath and sleep and that makes me like everyone else. When I write, I become something much greater than flesh… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
“If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great… — John Steinbeck Journal of a Novel - The East of Eden Letters Copy Share Image
One time I said to Jordan [Peele], in a text, "I will pick you up at 2:30. So if you're just standing… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The press is writing parallel narrative about my life, especially my married life and nothing about my work. That's media for you. — Ranvir Shorey Copy Share Image
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