Especially in writing love stories, there's always the assumption that once you've said 'I do,' once you get to the point where… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.” — Grace Bridges Copy Share Image
Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?'… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every… — Rachel Gibson Copy Share Image
Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
“People who think following your dreams is a fairytale don’t realize they’re living the biggest fairytale of all, following the sheep” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“What one gains in technique can lead to deforestation in the writing that is both good and bad. Keep the energy and… — Nancy Zafris Copy Share Image
I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You… — Allison Tolman Copy Share Image
Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been… — Paul Westhead Copy Share Image
It is like therapy to write and have people connect with it. That's the kind of music I connect with most. — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps… — Keifer Thompson Copy Share Image
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink,… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I was a nerdy kid and I was writing and showing other fellows who are still my friends what I was writing.… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is. — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different. — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
