I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't… — Hans-Uwe Bauer Copy Share Image
Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. — Eric Partridge Copy Share Image
This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen. — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I have a theory that there has never been a bad movie written about television because the writers have all been victims… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
For three months, we kept going into these writing sessions going, 'Man, I just heard this song on the radio, and it… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar… — Bernard Fanning Copy Share Image
A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm a different writer now. You don't sit in a room with Sopranos creator David Chase and writer Terence Winter for four… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
“Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The huge, turgid work of history, sinking under the weight of its own 'politically correct' thesis and its foot- and source notes,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will… — Richard Marius Copy Share Image
If you work in the studio system in America, they've almost got to the point where a computer programme could write scripts.… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high,… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. — Timothy West Copy Share Image
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I think the revolutionary role of a writer is to make language that makes coalition possible, language that makes us see things… — Gloria Steinem Lynn Gilbert Copy Share Image
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing. — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than… — James D. Houston Copy Share Image
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.' — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute.… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
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