I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The boy was in the Hitler Youth, he says, and he was reading a book one day, he was really enjoying it,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
That's kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You're speaking to everyone, but you don't also want to speak… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
Often when people are claiming that they are not creative, they mean that they are not artists, writers, athletes, or any other… — Michael Ray Copy Share Image
The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
You have a different, much more intimate relationship with the characters in a novel than when writing a screenplay. You're able to… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life,… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
“Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.” — Beth Harbison Copy Share Image
Basically, I just want to make movies and maybe even produce TV later down the line, do some writing, maybe a tour… — Lucy Hale Copy Share Image
'Talullah' is a movie I'm really proud of. Sian Heder is the director/writer, and I think she's extraordinarily talented. I think it… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
“You can talk forever about style, technique and beautiful prose...in the final analysis one thing matters above all else - is it… — Jamie Holoran Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand,… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't… — John Prine Copy Share Image
I set up this little office space with a piano in it and I thought that would be quite a novel way… — Sarah Blasko Copy Share Image
I write non-fiction quicker, and I write it on a computer. Fiction I write longhand, and that helps make it clear that… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
