“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
It's easy to be pessimistic. Nobody needs to be taught how. You don't need to buy a book on it. You don't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Writing is pretty flexible work, don't you think? If you want to surf, you just have to get a lot done when… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
I write songs for the same reasons most artists write songs -because I have to, whatever that means. Because I want to… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
The camera is to the Photographer what the pen is to the Writer: a tool to express a vision — Myriam Leforestier Copy Share Image
I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump Grind,' then turning around… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth… — Jay Lake Copy Share Image
I am not the most annoying person to bring to a movie 'cause I basically hold it in and write about it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“You can’t apply academic rules to art of any kind. As soon as you begin to have rules, you begin to say,… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings. One may tell the reader that the character went… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature,… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I relaxed. “I would imagine in your world, girls are much different than here in the real world. I’m sure if you… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer. — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Well, Peter has a writing style, but again, time changes subject matters and attitudes. — Josh Silver Copy Share Image
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I made the choice not to have children, so I can spend my days just writing; there are no kids demanding my… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
I always had a gift with writing. I can really write. I always felt like I can write movies or somehow get… — Dave East Copy Share Image
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or… — Grace Coolidge Copy Share Image
When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
“True learning happens when books and friends, writing and understanding intermingle in a rich soup of participation.” — R. David Lankes Copy Share Image
Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible. — Fisher Stevens Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
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