My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I'm slow by nature; even if I write something fast, I'll let it sit for a month and hem and haw over… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself. — James Robertson Copy Share Image
It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I feel lucky that my career so far has included books for adults and books for kids. They're equally important to me,… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
“How do I like to write? withe a soft pencil and a hard dick, not the other way round. I like the… — Hanif Khureshi Copy Share Image
My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Certain kinds of people, and a fortiori certain kinds of writers, have always experienced the world around them in the Gothic manner,… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“I said that the greatest female writers, with almost no exceptions, have been childless. A fact. And I have said that women… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
To reach the highest level you have to not just have a dream and focus but you also have to make sure… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The way we speak is very different from the way we write - especially from the way we write continuous prose. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor.… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
“I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer,is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can… — Maegan Cook Copy Share Image
The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you to know the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few… — Jeff Cardoni Copy Share Image
I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
“Deal with your readers that they are smart, and write a language that suits their intelligence. - How to write the best… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama. — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image