Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing and promoting my books. I enjoy the feedback. But all this is because I don't depend on it commercially.… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep… — Tim Lambesis Copy Share Image
“If you’re not going to immerse yourself in your work as a writer then don’t write. But beware, if you’re a writer… — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
Every single day, authors read at bookstores and libraries - and coffeeshops and bars - all over the country. And these readings… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Before I write, I like to read obits in 'The Times' because they're well written, and I like the little details. It… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“Dreams that last hold secrets from the past. Out of reach. Impossible to breach. Fragile to clutch. Fleeting to touch. Like stars… — JoDee Neathery Copy Share Image
“If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Don't let the covers fool you. Books, like lives, are wiggling, evolving, living things. They're not bound by pages or authors or… — Kelly G. Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I… — Walter Farley Copy Share Image
Research is necessary. However, you need to make sure you don't fall into its trap. You need to have time left for… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing,… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
There's the underlying feeling that writing must be easy, because it's all about putting letters together. That's only true in the same… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed." — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make… — Louis Garrel Copy Share Image
Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write… — Bettie Page Copy Share Image
“The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I think that I'm going to write a bigger thing, and then I end up writing about people, and the bigger thing… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count. — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
People showed me this way of dealing with music, writing songs, thinking about music and shows and our community and the fact… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I write characters that I want to play, because I just think, 'Hey, maybe one day… — Diana Silvers Copy Share Image
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