“The strength of your book is your conflict. For many writers that sentence should read, “The strength of your book is your… — Debra Dixon Copy Share Image
After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political enough. I had to be more… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock,… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't write these stories for the rewards that come back to me. I write them because I have to write them.… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ...… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
“Our lives are like a complex musical score. Filled with all sorts of cryptic writing, sixteenth and thirty-second notes and other strange… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think it's satisfying for people to feel that that relationship is reciprocal in some way. The truth is, you do have… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
“In the American Grain" "Ninth grade, and bicycling the Jersey highways: I am a writer. I was half-wasp already, I changed my… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
I think, as a writer, you see the big picture, and as an actor, you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that's just fine… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
“And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all,… — T.S.Eliot Copy Share Image
I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on… — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am,… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
“The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow. — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Buy printed books because you save real thoughts of writers. Content of digital books can be changed easy if it is needed.” — Ekaterina Yakovina Copy Share Image
I like to write about love plus an obstacle. Not a really big obstacle; not too serious and not too funny. Just… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
Every moment I choose to write about is one I have deemed important enough to dwell inside of and share with others.… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I like learning things, and I like that writing comics is an excuse to look into new stuff and research and learn… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
