A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
All I care about is that people who like me think I'm funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line,… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated;… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
When you have writers who recognize they're making a wrong turn and correct it, I knew I was in good hands. — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“I was an I, an opera of feeling with a very small audience, a writer of articles about culture but with no… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons.… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at,… — Carl Wilson Copy Share Image
“♔ Writing is my passion. I never want to let it go. It may be short, Fan-Fiction or purely my own work.… — BritHoran Copy Share Image
I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test… — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I didn’t write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I’m not even sure who they all are. I can’t wait to see the movie. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The writing and recording process is what I enjoy, it allows me to be creative and work with different artists and producers. — Bugzy Malone Copy Share Image
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it. — Winifred Mary Letts Copy Share Image
I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock,… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political enough. I had to be more… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“The strength of your book is your conflict. For many writers that sentence should read, “The strength of your book is your… — Debra Dixon Copy Share Image
I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think, as a writer, you see the big picture, and as an actor, you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
