Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing… — Karl Lehenbauer Copy Share Image
The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
“We’re committed to the idea that a book has to live in the present . . . but the reality, that’s hard for us to recognise,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
With me and Timbaland, we would always be at the studio, but working separately. He would be doing his thing with the… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
When it's all said and done, I'm very, very glad to work in this business, but that's exactly what it is. It's… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
“I think back to that night, and I write exactly what happened. How James made me laugh until my sides hurt. How… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
“The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and… — Brent weeks Copy Share Image
I love any books by Kelly Sue DeConnick or Marjorie M. Liu; it's lovely to have successful, talented female writers doing great… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
There isn't much of an agenda lyrically. And I definitely didn't want to write about things I don't know anything about. — Mick Barr Copy Share Image
Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
“Most histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers—if they survive—are often more interesting.” — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest -… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Writing is pretty flexible work, don't you think? If you want to surf, you just have to get a lot done when… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer wasn't a choice (there would have been far more worthwhile things to do); it was the best, most fruitful… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the… — Glenn Howerton Copy Share Image
[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural." — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me. — Victoria Laurie Copy Share Image
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