When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You’re allowed to vegetate in front of the TV, but first you need to put your running shoes on and walk outside… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people think that I'm a humorist or comedy songwriter. I will never take offence, but I think… — CMAT Copy Share Image
Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
We're at the end of long cycle that began in 1945, loading the economy with debt. We're not going to be able… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means… — David Simon Copy Share Image
But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
“(I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“I can see prose has taken an unfortunate turn toward utility in the past century,” he said with obvious regret. “I’m afraid… — D. Nathan Hilliard Copy Share Image
If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing. — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing… — Hillary Carlip Copy Share Image
Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
I've written a couple of scripts. Actually, a pilot. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say, but it's a comedy about three… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
“some of history’s lessons here with respect to writing should be obvious: make a copy; back up your data; and beware of… — Brian Carroll Copy Share Image
If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually… — John Green Copy Share Image
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it). — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I always feel like my writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
