I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to… — Evan Dando Copy Share Image
I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I want to write a novel that is so good it causes readers to ignore meals, sleep, work, friends and spouses!!” — R.E. Fisher Copy Share Image
You have to fight against all the things that will keep you out of writing, because life doesn't go with writing. You… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write,… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
“I do use husbands a bit (in books). It's what writers of this kind do, actually. I am quite careful to try… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing 1. Never open a book with weather. 2. Avoid prologues. 3. Never use a verb other… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
What led to my change of views about the Clintons was working through the research and writing on the book on Hillary. — David Brock Copy Share Image
I'm writing kid's books, I'm doing endurance racing with Le Mans and designing bikes. I've also got my own range of cycling… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
“If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Writing things down with a pen is a lot faster and more therapeutic than trying to type something on a tiny touchscreen… — Jodie Beau Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
People that don't write, whatever it is, they just assume you sit down and it magically pours out like Amaedus, and it's… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
time stood still. I fell into that beloved space that writers fall into, the reason most write, as it's better than drugs… — Meg O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it… — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
