“What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
“It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the… — Edna Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Writing is not about stats, numbers, or selling. Writing is about touching that someone other with your words, to share your bliss.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I wrote about the things I discovered along the way and about how whether we believe it or not, everything we need… — Andrew Kendall Copy Share Image
A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world… — Charles Lambert Copy Share Image
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much, I… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
I started writing songs so late and I had so many day jobs - jobs just to pay the bills. So, when… — Joshua Radin Copy Share Image
A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write… — Nina Gordon Copy Share Image
I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I like to write in fairly everyday language - I've always tried to write lyrics that, if people would speak the words,… — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It's a huge responsibility writing about people who are alive. It's the thing about writing that keeps me awake at night: dramatising… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
I was reluctant to talk about my kids on the blog. I kept telling myself, "People aren't coming here for stories about… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“A printing press that can write its own books? A mind that thinks about itself? If I don’t have it, at least… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
“Looking at herself in the mirror, she never forgot that death was hovering behind that face. Faint yet tenacious, like black writing… — Han Kang Copy Share Image
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location. — James MacArthur Copy Share Image
At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and… — Shakira Copy Share Image
I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too. — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life’s traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
I have carpal tunnel so I can't write more than four hours total without tingling numbness. I take a lot of breaks… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
“An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all… — William Styron Copy Share Image
