I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal. — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage. — Judy Gold Copy Share Image
You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“My name is Jongin. I’m the writer who lives next door. See you tomorrow, hyung. Don’t forget!” — changdictator Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror. — Ken Marino Copy Share Image
“I write out those things no child should ever have been made to know” — Stephen Reid Copy Share Image
“Yes I am a firm believer in Christ, and yes there is cussing and other sinful things in my writing, simply because… — Kimberly Humphreys Copy Share Image
“It is a wise writer who knows his own subconcious." And not only knows it but lets it speak of the world… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It might not appear in the newspaper, it might not change anything or anyone else, but writing it would change the way… — Valerie Tripp Copy Share Image
There are writers I know and respect who are very good about what's outside, and not too hot about what's inside. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I've always been making stuff. I had a very free upbringing, and very encouraging parents. I just found that it was a… — Ida Maria Copy Share Image
For me going to war offers me the ability to write about apparently very alien, sometimes hated or despised people, who've been… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
Todd Glass has amazing energy on stage. Dave Attell is one of my favorites because he's a one liner comic who is… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
“In my classes, we read great fiction obsessively, and then attempt to see how a writer managed to affect us. We try… — Dean Bakopoulos Copy Share Image
“I can't help thinking of Jackson Pollock, who poured, splattered and lashed the canvass with strings of paint. His process was about… — Jocelyn Lieu Copy Share Image
To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what… — James Salter Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image