“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I don't write these stories for the rewards that come back to me. I write them because I have to write them.… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“Some writers refuse to lay their heads peaceably on the pillow of literary history in order to give posterity good dreams." --… — of the works of Knut Hamsun (26 nov 1998 James Wood review in London Review of Books Copy Share Image
New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story,… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice… — Stanley Ellin Copy Share Image
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think I would have been a lot more miserable and discovered a lot less of things I liked if I hadn't… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things,… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Some of the things I love the most are when a writer or a visionary takes on sort of an iconic character… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.” — Bailey Elizabeth Copy Share Image
With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don't know… — Billy the Kid Copy Share Image
“Nothing has been written about cowards', so I let go of any fears I might have had and plunged headfirst into this… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Anton Chekhov wisely said, “"The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to… — Ann Packer Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed gaming, but even as I got older, and I started to get deeper into writing and all this stuff… — Zelda Williams Copy Share Image
We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around. — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
“I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or… — Kathryn Albright Copy Share Image
