This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world,… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
I don't think I would ever inch my way up to Y.A. That audience is very well served. There are a lot… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a first draft of a script, I can disappear into that for two, three months exclusively. — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
“virus writers lack the basic social and moral values and the “well-formed consciousness” that are the hallmarks of civilized modern societies.” — Peter H. Gregory Copy Share Image
“ 'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet… — Fae Sutherland Copy Share Image
In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle… — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
“The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes.… — John A. Ashley Copy Share Image
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“November 2014, focus on science communications full-time. I now work for a cancer charity, “translating” science into English for fundraising teams. My… — Sam Maggs Copy Share Image
The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Read Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. Then do what it says, including the tasks you think are impossible. You will particularly… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“written words even more so than spoken ones—had a kind of lasting power, that if something was written down, it was somehow… — Michael Bailey Copy Share Image
I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
“A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Not every classic book was the best thing ever. Each book has flaws, and it’s up to writers to change things.” — Tim Holtorf Copy Share Image
I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“three rules for writing as a spiritual practice: (1) Don’t write what you know; (2) Don’t write what you don’t know; and… — Rami Shapiro Copy Share Image
The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I liked the challenge of writing and shooting without knowing what's going to happen or how it's going to turn out. — Evan Mock Copy Share Image
By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.” — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
For writing stand-up, I have to have a little bit of anger and frustration to be motivated to do it. Stand-up, for… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard… — Stanley Unwin Copy Share Image
I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
