I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I get told I'm too good-looking for a lot of roles. They don't write roles people would think I'm supposed to play… — Nico Tortorella Copy Share Image
In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Anton Chekhov wisely said, “"The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Years ago when I was in a cover band and we were playing dances, that was quite a different thing. You were… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“Even today I keep a Dream Journal. It's whatever's going on in my subconscious, or things from dreams or even interesting items… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
A lot of my writer friends live near me, and that makes people think we just hang around with one another in… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Self-doubt is every writer’s nemesis. While healthy in moderation, unchecked self-doubt can lead to procrastination, crippling perfectionism, and ultimately failure. If you’re… — Will Raywood Copy Share Image
I graduated from my Master of Fine Arts program for writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts.… — Lisa Papademetriou Copy Share Image
It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned… — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
“Nothing has been written about cowards', so I let go of any fears I might have had and plunged headfirst into this… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don't know… — Billy the Kid Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed gaming, but even as I got older, and I started to get deeper into writing and all this stuff… — Zelda Williams Copy Share Image
I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to… — Ann Packer Copy Share Image
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.” — Bailey Elizabeth Copy Share Image
I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story,… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“Some writers refuse to lay their heads peaceably on the pillow of literary history in order to give posterity good dreams." --… — of the works of Knut Hamsun (26 nov 1998 James Wood review in London Review of Books Copy Share Image
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
