Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of busywork to a writer's life, as to a professor's life, a great deal of work that… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I can write anywhere really. I have a hard time writing when the birds are tweeting and the brooks are running outside.… — James McBride Copy Share Image
For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a… — Wilfred Thesiger Copy Share Image
“Writers as diverse as Wordsworth and Freud, as Blake and Dickens have all hypothesized that the turbulence and intensity we feel as… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“What, then, are some of the shifts that have happened in our understanding of the composing process that make a focus on… — Troy Hicks Copy Share Image
Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
“If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest… — Joe Clifford Faust Copy Share Image
I think more talented writers should get involved in the industry, yes, of course. But that doesn't presuppose that those writers have… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
“I meant to spend the day writing, but instead I spent the afternoon cleaning out my belly button. Historians will thank me… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
