I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“So, the darkness hid the little girl in herself, to protect her from the wolves with the human mask on their faces.” — Sweara Ahmed Copy Share Image
I can't speak for other artists; every group has a different approach. For us, it will always be important to keep working… — RM Copy Share Image
Knut Hamsun's writing is magical. His sentences are glowing; he could write about anything and make it alive. Of contemporary writers, Thure… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I am a better person when I am writing, and I am probably a better mother because I can focus all that… — MacKenzie Scott Copy Share Image
Somebody would say, 'Can you write us an article about big, bodice-ripping, blockbusting romance novels?' And I'd say, 'Yes, of course,' because… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have about four different endeavors I'm going after right now. They all excite me in different ways. I'm all about keeping… — Kevin Griffin Copy Share Image
I will always believe in love and I don't care what happens to me or how many times I get my heart… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I don't write poems with a purpose in mind, but I'd hope that some readers would find their experiences mirrored or articulated… — Deborah Landau Copy Share Image
As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
I remember one of my writer friends asking me, "Jonestown? Everyone knows the ending. What's new or surprising that you can say… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
I want my books to exist in the literary world, not only in the art world. I am interested in having a… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
I absolutely love writing. As a kid I won spelling bees, but I am really good with grammar. I'm the kind of… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
“God is a hack,” he said. “He’s a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can’t plot His way… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
“In these writings, and in all my teaching work, I continue to ask the question, “What about the children?” — Albert J. LaChance Copy Share Image
I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I believe the term "blog" means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's hard to describe the work of the British-born Australian writer Elizabeth Jolley without somewhat misrepresenting it. — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
“Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
Woman's success story are written to bed.and Who would not write, he trumpeted to the exploitation of women — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement. — John Maus Copy Share Image
The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Writers are a combative bunch when it comes to aesthetics, and the generation before GENRE are born into a discourse that’s been… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are… — Phillip Gary Smith Copy Share Image
