By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts,… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“In order to be a writer, "Maugham continues: "one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing. — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might… — Danny Wallace Copy Share Image
I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I've been writing 'Green Lantern' for a long time, and one of the reasons I've enjoyed it is because the depth of… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
“T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm… — Kay Cannon Copy Share Image
Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite… — Princess Superstar Copy Share Image
Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel. — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
“I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“Writer's Block I sit down peacefully with my book. Upon the blank page I look. As i tap my pen patiently, patiently,… — Edward James Copy Share Image
The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write. — Gabriel Fielding Copy Share Image
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre. — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell. — Tony Oller Copy Share Image
I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music. — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music,… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
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