“When I'm drunk with feeling and nature is drinking from my lips and we reflect each other in our atmospheres, then my… — Brandi Bates Copy Share Image
If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays,… — Stephen Kuusisto Copy Share Image
“Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when words won't come at all, and the other is Logorrhoea, when the… — Cecilia Bartholomew Copy Share Image
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling. — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested,… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting. — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
I've always really loved big worlds and the kind of worldbuilding where you can open a portal into a new realm that… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
Sitcom characters, my writing partner Sam Bain and I sometimes tell each other, are not normally self-conscious. Or not quite. The best… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
I wrote Her First American and I always say it took me eighteen years. It took me that long was because after… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
To my mind, Death in Venice represents an enormous advance in Mann's literary development, not simply for the commonly appreciated reason that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“I love the word 'fantasy'... but I love it for the almost infinite room it gives an author to play: an infinite… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was… — John Searles Copy Share Image
I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write… — Jain Copy Share Image
Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place–… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What satisfaction do you, personally, get from being a writer?" Lanark tried to remember. He said, "It's the only disciplined work I… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. There's always a new street I can go to,… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
“I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Your writings and head are disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love. — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
“Not only had Yates continued to grow as a writer in terms of craft, but also philosophically, salvaging from the ruins of… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing. — Nitin Sawhney Copy Share Image
If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group… — Earl Hamner, Jr Copy Share Image
“Everyone carries a story which can be a best selling novel, it’s just a matter of penning down your feelings on papers.” — Sohil Ashvin Shah Copy Share Image
Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
