“Why didn’t I become an architect? Answer: Because I thought the sheets of paper on which I was to pour my dreams… — Iain Borden Copy Share Image
“Read, so as to know; speak, so as to teach; write, so as to think!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought… — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
“I tried to write a coming of age novel, but I wasn't deep enough to get past the third chapter.” — Rick Robinson Copy Share Image
When I first broke out, everyone was like, 'OK, so is this a joke?' They had to wait until I sold out… — Yung Lean Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became… — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
There's a fake Facebook me. There's a fake me Twittering. Sometimes, when it was at the height of right-wing nonsense picking on… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
“It seems as though autism is being portrayed in literature less as a diagnosis, and more as a minority lifestyle. Sometimes it… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The quality of writing attracts me to films, also who the other actors are, who the director is, where it's being shot.… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again. — Florence Littauer Copy Share Image
Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm a soul maker. I write songs. I'm making cartoon shows. I'm planning on putting stuff out myself on my own, on… — Greg Cipes Copy Share Image
To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers. — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The big insight that I have, not so much from writing 'Red Notice' but from living as the main character of 'Red… — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
You're forced to me to back going on copy & pest throughout eliminating my name on my own composition. that's really painful… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“The fact is that as writers we need to make our mark. But, to do that, we must help our words make… — Suyog Ketkar Copy Share Image
At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick… — Nneka Copy Share Image
If you can find two poems in a book, it could be a pretty good book for you. You know, two poems… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.” — Ann Marie Aguilar Copy Share Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a… — Bernie Leadon Copy Share Image
Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too. — Blake Morrison Copy Share Image
I feel like as a writer, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to 'Game of Thrones', because it really blew open… — Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Copy Share Image