“writing about drugs is like that though, isn't it? You can just tell when someone is writing about drugs and they've never… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.” — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
“M: ... but everytime I start in everytime I everytime you see I would have to tell the whole story all over… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
If I had a girlfriend I would write her letters instead of using Twitter. — Bill Kaulitz Copy Share Image
“That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me.… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“Think of a caterpillar entering a cocoon. Once he does so, one of two things will happen: He will either transform into… — Steven James Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again. — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
Well Ive been rhyming since I was 5 years old and I kinda stopped when I was 10. Then this summer I… — Diggy Simmons Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I've written a book; I've become a better husband and father because I'm home every day. My connection to the Hollywood world… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
“On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap,… — Simon Cheshire Copy Share Image
There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Some people do rely too much on technology. Look, technology is wonderful and I love it. When I was in the UK… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was never trying to be funny. Being funny feels to me like an alternate form of confessionality - that is, a… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character.… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I've always said my audience is just me. It's somebody out there who's exactly like me and just isn't writing Daring Fireball. — John Gruber Copy Share Image
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