I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's something that a writer doesn't see or a producer doesn't see when he's looking at a shot. — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
If you're going to write something, that's going to be read by people, a lot of people, you hope it will not… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed. — Christian Rudder Copy Share Image
As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I don't feel pride when I look at a magazine spread I did for Vogue, but writing is really satisfying to me.… — Christine Leunens Copy Share Image
“The first to overcome the problem were the ancient Sumerians, who lived in southern Mesopotamia. There, a scorching sun beating upon rich… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Something that bothered people about 'Dawson's Creek' but as a writer, I kind of dug: writing those kids as though they were… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
Why does the Destroyer hate Artemis? (Cassandra) Love. Why else? Love, hatred, and revenge are the most powerful emotions on earth. Apollymi… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Not going back is fine. Not going back but occasionally visiting might be best. Not going back but remembering so you don’t… — Kris Radish Copy Share Image
For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
“It's not what you do, read or write. It's about the impact you leave for others to learn from. That is the… — Rita A. Barnes Copy Share Image
Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to… — George Will Copy Share Image
“People, not just writers, are attracted to New Orleans because it's full of stories and listeners who love nothing better to do… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel.… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story. — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace. — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Everything I do with my day is related to Superwoman. I'm either doing conference calls or writing a script or reading a… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I'll always work with my collaborator in the room so I have a reaction on a note-by-note basis. I know in my… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
“Another writer argued in an 1895 issue of the Cosmopolitan that by riding a bicycle, a woman would "become mistress of herself,"… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I would quite like to become a mainstream thriller writer, obviously, because I enjoy writing those stories, and it is the best… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
A column is a curiously intimate affair. For a start, you know by default that you will have regular readers, so it… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
