What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I was never really satisfied with writing only text or with the way my texts looked when they were published. Most online… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I would like to tell about war and friendship among the various parts of the body, the arms that do battle with… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
“Simply put: I am an Author with deep passion for the written word. When I read: I want to feel... When I… — Suzanne Steele Copy Share Image
I'm going to write films, star in films, direct films. Write records. Perform live. — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased… — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base.… — Brenda Russell Copy Share Image
There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access.… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I think I got serious about writing in the late '90s. The first stuff I wrote was terrible and got rejected, but… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
“When I can’t write I read. When I can’t read I sleep. And when I can’t sleep I write.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Writing is lonely, it's an intimate talk with the undead, with the unborn, with the absent, with strangers , with the readers… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The biggest difference in writing a sequel is that now there are expectations. But also - and this is the awesome part… — Tim Federle Copy Share Image
“A Book I Can Put Down I’m halfway through and I’ve gotten used to the way it wants to be read. This… — Antonia Clark Copy Share Image
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I would just be constantly writing all these zingers - like, 'Burn. That would really get her.' And I know people are… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
I'm truly grateful to the writers of Fringe for giving me that because, over the years, when I've spoken about the character… — John Noble Copy Share Image
When I got to 'Looking,' I didn't know that you could write stuff and they would put it on TV. That was… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
Every once in a while someone says, 'You can't really learn anything, if you're really a writer then you wouldn't need to… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“But perhaps the answer is to stop writing altogether, for when I do write, even now as I write this very sentence,… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
