For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life. — Cao Yu Copy Share Image
It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart"- Phyllis Theroux” — Phyllis Theroux Copy Share Image
“Anything that distracts from the story you are trying to tell should be promptly and mercilessly dealt with.” — Craig Hart Copy Share Image
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“I ain't a lover, but I want to love all your crazy imperfections, I ain't a diver, but I want to dive… — Hareem Ch Copy Share Image
Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a… — Randy Ingermanson Copy Share Image
“He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
So in that way, fame has become a weirder thing to go after, but the thing about me is I've never been… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock… — James Iha Copy Share Image
It's fun to do accents; it's fun to do different periods - that's why you become an actor. Because it's fun to… — Jean Smart Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, I get compared to people who have no clue how to do anything, but because of some Internet writing,… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
The writing and recording process is what I enjoy, it allows me to be creative and work with different artists and producers. — Bugzy Malone Copy Share Image
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I didn’t write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I’m not even sure who they all are. I can’t wait to see the movie. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it. — Winifred Mary Letts Copy Share Image
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All I care about is that people who like me think I'm funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line,… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test… — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated;… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
