“There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey Copy Share Image
It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make… — Alan Chadwick Copy Share Image
When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I… — Steven Zaillian Copy Share Image
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its… — C. Sigman Copy Share Image
There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself. — David Talbot Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
“Scott Adams: From him, I learned how to write a three-panel comic. Probably the best pure writer on the comics page.” — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
“I’ve tried writing with that belief in mind, discovering instead how deep inhales and the release of a strong exhale are furthest… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
Even my wife and two of my children are in "Leaves of Grass". Because I love the source material so much, it… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“For my books, I do everything short of writing my own reviews. Those I do tall.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
