To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
As a writer, I find that a good way of evolving a character is through an examination of his or her defining… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I was super-involved… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
“My daughter, people are only used to seeing the glorified in a story, because a story is only a tiny, tiny piece… — Darryl Steven Markowitz Copy Share Image
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ...… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Committing to providing greater opportunities for disabled actors should include writing disabilities into more roles where it is irrelevant to the storyline. — Chris McCausland Copy Share Image
Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think it was really important for me before I 'debuted myself' in front of the world to have a private life… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B.… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William,… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I wrote the last sentence of The Patron Saint of Liars in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won.… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
