Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published. — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I guess storytelling's always been in my blood. My mom said I was always dressing up and jumping in front of the… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
That's the way I came up, writing and recording at home. I developed by playing everything myself. I was a drummer first… — Pete Yorn Copy Share Image
To Me, the sky is not filled with stars and planets, It is a endlessly flowing vita, Of letters, and words. The… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“She learned that the best writing used dialogue almost in counterpoint to the visuals, so that what was heard was different from… — Stephen Galloway Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“Nearly every writer writes a book with a great amount of attention and intention and hopes and dreams. And it's important to… — Madeline Sharples Copy Share Image
“IT’S NOT THAT ANYONE CAN BE A HERO, BUT THAT A HERO CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE. BUT THE KEY IS THAT THEY… — FILM CRIT HULK Copy Share Image
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences. — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
I think longer that you sit on a screenplay the longer you sit. I'm a firm believer that you can write the… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I'd moved to L.A., and everyone's actors here and writers, they were like super emotional and super in touch with their feelings,… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me. — Zack Greinke Copy Share Image
“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest… — Ivan Klima Copy Share Image
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Sensory experience should not be draped on top of the story as sort of a last-minute decoration. Done right, it is woven… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed… — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Still Writing Songs About You' - that one hits me every time. For some reason, I really feel that song every time… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave… — Judy Delton Copy Share Image
“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.” — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs… — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
At one point, I just decided that it might be more creatively rewarding to put my time into writing on stuff that… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
