Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.” — Jeremy Young Copy Share Image
Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
My actual writing process? I have to just love the beat before I even write on it. I can't force myself to… — Lil Nas X Copy Share Image
You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
As a gay writer and someone who began by writing autobiographical fiction, it's hard to get away from chatter of "You're just… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
The one good thing to be said about announcing yourself as a writer in the colonial Canadian fifties is that nobody told… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they’re good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you… — W.P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I think when you're in the early stages of writing a song, it's important to shut off the part of your brain… — Nick Valensi Copy Share Image
I thought a bit of poetry might be interesting - I even write a few lines myself. I composed a short poem… — Iain Dowie Copy Share Image
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Often as a writer, you get your first draft out, and then you look and think, 'Now, what have I got here.'… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap -… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I really enjoy just being an actor. It's fun to be surprised by someone else's writing and to collaborate in creating a… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
I avoid continuously writing or tweeting about ISIS, as it centres them in the narrative and we end up reacting to them… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
My mom was a piano teacher and I grew up taking voice lessons since I was 9. I started off writing melodies… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master. — Deon Meyer Copy Share Image
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
I don't really read Stephen King - I just can't read scary things because it stays with me too long - but… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
