I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Support our troops!” we cry, but I say, “Love our veterans!” And when he neglects church, take him cookies anyway. Sing him… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting. — Neil Drumming Copy Share Image
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I say it in the writers' room all the time: My black is not your black. What's terrifying is that, just the… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
There's lots of good movies where you feel that the dialogue could be improvised, but very little was. The "Big Lebowski" was… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“Far from being writers—founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language,… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Dad and Mom were frustrated artists - Dad wanted to study engineering or architecture and Mom wanted to be an actress -… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm not the new kid on the block anymore. Writers always use the phrase "aging rocker," and I'm like, "What other option… — Bret Michaels Copy Share Image
I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write. — Julie Salamon Copy Share Image
I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that's piled up ahead of me,… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director,… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“I broke with the academic style because I decided that life is very short, very mysterious, and I didn't have the time… — Mev Puleo Copy Share Image
One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive. Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
After Strapping, the amount of things in my life had changed were more than I'd ever had to process in any one… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's self-destructive to become confident regarding your own acting. Acting, your entire career depends on a lot of things. What kind of… — Jitendra Kumar Copy Share Image
“No shame in having a ghostwriter," Storm said. "Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“By writing quotes... I mark a trail of my soul's journey in this realm.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of… — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
I'll write whenever I can and I'll use whatever instrument is around. — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
