I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I believe sex is a life force and I try to write about it as straightforwardly as I can. I try to… — Maureen Gibbon Copy Share Image
You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself,… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
“Come be the stampede of emotion standing on this dancing ocean, as I empty out this flood within, down to the last… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Loving your subject, you will write about it with the spontaneity and enthusiasm that will transmit itself to your reader. Loving your… — Lee Wyndham Copy Share Image
I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I've always made things either paintings, drawing, photographs, or writing. It's all kind of the same thing. It all involves saying more,… — Moyra Davey Copy Share Image
Whenever I write for television, I plan the story on whiteboard wallpaper in my office, using a system created by the American… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
When you are preparing for a role, you have a script to comb through and the writer's help in telling you about… — Lindsay Mendez Copy Share Image
When I have to critique someone else's web design, rather than write up a giant email or take a screengrab and move… — Jessica Hische Copy Share Image
The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well,… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I have yet to face Writer's Block and I don't believe I ever will. It is much more difficult for me to… — Kenneth J. Ester Copy Share Image
When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
I very rarely sit down with a guitar and try to write a song. I usually think about it a lot and… — Sune Rose Wagner Copy Share Image
I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
“Golden Heart finalist in the prestigious RWA writing contest. Finalist in the International Digital Awards Semi-finalist in the Best Indie Books of… — E. Ayers Copy Share Image
You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my… — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Words in books can remind us of truth, and help awaken us to it. But in themselves, words are just paint and… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Experience needs distance and what you write of at a distance tells not so much what you were like as what you… — David Wade Copy Share Image
Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“the written word is a recent invention that has left no trace in our genome and must be laboriously acquired throughout childhood… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I don't really know what emotions are going to come out in songs when I'm writing them until I step back and… — Borns Copy Share Image
“If only we could reach back before the concept, could write on a level with the senses, record the infinitesimal variations of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
