The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot… — Wendy C. Ortiz Copy Share Image
My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
The good part of writing is where it gets out of your control and turns into something else. You look at it… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
“Write as many books as you want, but remember that literature is never about quantity. Even the most popular works fade into… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'd really like to see smart sex writing, writing that can take sex apart and try to put it back together, that… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I have little weird things that aren't really specific but are just kind of odd. I write my 5's backwards, and I… — Christian Serratos Copy Share Image
I loved the writing process. I would love to write more. And I'd like to do a roundtable, like 'The View' or… — Andi Dorfman Copy Share Image
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me,… — Ron White Copy Share Image
I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
That is the thing about being a writer; your subject matter may not stay your subject matter if you break their trust… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas,… — Horace Copy Share Image
I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Sitcom writing is difficult because it's not just about writing jokes - there's a very fine balance between characters, plot, and comedy,… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing. — Dreezy Copy Share Image
A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think. — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on,… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Because I'm a little ADD, I would like to incorporate even more facets to my career eventually, such as writing and directing… — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real… Once I got to my… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if… — Nikki Rosen Copy Share Image
The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing… — Colin Baker Copy Share Image
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