I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
“We achieve originality of style not by avoiding the influences of others but by blending them into a combination that has not… — Scott Norton Copy Share Image
Any writer who could handle all these different voices would deserve high praise, but to do so without any sense of jarring… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I wrote out the lyrics that I would do at MAMA 4~5 days in advance. After I said that, Zico hyung told… — Kim Nam-joon Copy Share Image
I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“As of this writing, I am twenty-five years old. I have been alive for 307 months. Nine of those months were pretty… — Elizabeth Smart with Chris Stewart Copy Share Image
And while dollars have little to do with it, the fiction writer should be asking the same question any capable film producer… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
“Are you kidding me?' Shan asked, slightly drunk, slightly dramatic, and now sitting yoga style on the floor. 'You can't write an… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Some people think I am an issue-oriented writer, but I've never said to myself, I'm gong to write about such-and-such an issue… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can only write so many pop songs before they all sound the same. I got to a point where something overtly… — Dylan Baldi Copy Share Image
“If you want to be a writer you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot,”… — Ann Handley Copy Share Image
What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and… — D. J. MacHale Copy Share Image
I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I suppose it's useful in designating writing that tends to come from personal experience, work that delineates an "I," but it's a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and,… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B.: This quote… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is -… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
I love what I call "re-imagining," where I throw everything up in the air and let it fall in a different way.… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly,… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
