If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing… — Robert Mark Kamen Copy Share Image
After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Usually when I'm writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“Q: Do you have any advice for upcoming writers who want to pen weird stories? A: READ, damn it. Fill your brain… — T.E. Grau Copy Share Image
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
We had to cope with the media writing things which were not true, which were insulting. At around 13 I decided I… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Really, anyone in the business who transitions into directing as a writer or editor or an actor or a cinematographer, at some… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the… — Morris West Copy Share Image
I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four… — John Feldmann Copy Share Image
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world.… — Lemon Andersen Copy Share Image
I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think,… — David Bowker Copy Share Image
Steve Jackson is a born storyteller. He makes you sweat. . .and turn the page. — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
“Johnson argued that the most truthful life-writing is when ‘the writer tells his own story’, since only he knows the whole truth… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
