The adult fiction and writing for children portions of my MFA program were kept very separate, and there was a stigma around… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New… — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
“I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I… — Garon Whited Copy Share Image
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars! — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
“Writing is one of the best therapies that exist. Either on paper, computer, phone or tablet, in any form it is helpful.… — Nico J. Genes Copy Share Image
I write a little plan for the day. I write down what time I need to get up to go to the… — Helen Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Ho there, scribe. I see that you write well enough. Can you also read?' 'Obviously you cannot, boy,' he replied. 'For if… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically,… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Maybe I feel like I'm writing songs that don't need to be saved or made more interesting by endless overdubs and studio… — Robin Guthrie Copy Share Image
The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer… — Bailey Vincent Copy Share Image
As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that. — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and… — James Mangold Copy Share Image
I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I'll always write. Performing? I probably won't be touring for the rest of my life. I think that I might… — Ruel Copy Share Image
I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon,… — Serge Lutens Copy Share Image
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to… — Bill Harley Copy Share Image
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I got addicted to the addiction book. I actually started developing all the addictions of the people in the book that I… — Susan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we… — Shayne Ward Copy Share Image
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
