I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
I wasn't encouraged to write just stand there and sing and I never thought I was a writer. I always figured if… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Hindi music is something that I always loved since my childhood, my father Mr. Satyamurty was a legendary movie writer in the… — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
When I first started writing songs, I was almost quite embarrassed that I couldn't read music and I still to this day… — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“My best advice for aspiring writers is to read a lot and write. Don't worry if you don't get your first, fifth… — Katie Fforde Copy Share Image
Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel… — Heather Graham Pozzessere Copy Share Image
[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Machines have given us a new ability to count and make our understanding quantitative. The Web connects news gatherers with audiences in… — Tom Rosenstiel Copy Share Image
I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
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