While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
It's easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety. — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
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I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different. — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
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“I continued working without a break, but in the middle of the third story...I felt myself tiring more than if I had… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
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For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it,… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
“It [writing] has enormous meta-cognitive implications. The power is this: That you cannot only think in ways that you could not possibly… — John R. Searle Copy Share Image
The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or… — Bienvenido Lumbera Copy Share Image
I think of my success as a kind of fluke. How else could I possibly think of it? And although it's a… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz… — Michael Easton Copy Share Image
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I dress up cute sometimes to go to work, but TV writers don't! They just go however. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through… — Yanni Copy Share Image
Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
It was difficult, and yet I was very eager to do it. It was a really odd thing. I really wanted to… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good… — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed. — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“To be a great Writer, Write what you know & Write what other writers wouldn't write about.” — Maryann Gestwicki Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
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