I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Searching for fish, cook them, eat them. They're gone. Yet, writing is never gone although the writer died.” — Pilo Poly Copy Share Image
I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca.… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction. — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became… — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing. — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well. — Jerry Juhl Copy Share Image
As a writer of worship songs, I have a hunger to write deep songs of passionate reverence to God. Yet I'm aware… — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
“Rosalind Porter: As a writer, how important do you feel it is to engage with the digital revolution? Margaret Atwood: I don’t… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Even as I wrote my note to Fern, for instance, expressing sentiments and regrets that were real, a part of me was… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence.… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
“now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is... simply… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
“Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath… — Nikita Dudani Copy Share Image
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about?… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably.… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Love of the written word. Nurture yet disseminate. Accept and respect people with a different viewpoint. Laugh if you must but spare… — Deeba Salim Irfan Copy Share Image
Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than… — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart… — Paul Michael Glaser Copy Share Image
Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I never leave home without my writing notebook, and get a lot of writing done in transit. One great place to create… — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“Words have power, power we fail to recognize time and time again. Both spoken words and written words have an impact that… — Sarah Holman Copy Share Image
“At least I could relate to Rose’s sense of adventure and Harriet Jones’ wacky determination and ingrained sense of responsibility. I can… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about racing to the finish line; it's about finding joy in each step of the process. If a writer focuses… — Christopher Meyerhoeffer Copy Share Image
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
