“I'm on the New York State Council for the Arts now, and every so often some other member talks about sending notices… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Success is being artistically fulfilled and happy. You can't control how people see your movie or how much money it makes...and the… — Ansel Elgort Copy Share Image
I've been writing ever since I was a child: I used to give my English teacher extra homework and say, 'What do… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing… — Cheri Bustos Copy Share Image
Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write… — Lili St. Crow Copy Share Image
“My advice to all young writers is quite simple. I would caution them never to evade a new experience. I would urge… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We're telling the story of 'Daredevil'. In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight… — Elodie Yung Copy Share Image
“If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller... I haves a God-given gift that I can share with you and perhaps entertain you and bring you along… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state,… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
I've always been very grateful that enough people have enjoyed reading what I've written that I've been able to pursue writing professionally. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“The Life is Poem, we write when we are Young, sing along all through Life, and we reap the truth when we… — Dr.T.V.Rao MD Copy Share Image
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
“But I will admit, that most of my life has been with the thought of the reaper pacing behind me. I know… — Jamie Freveletti Copy Share Image
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
