I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“When intentional, there is no right or wrong in writing—only creativity, personality and a new way to look at words. If you… — Ryan J. Alls Copy Share Image
Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place.… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I know I'm only as good as the material I've got to work with. I'm not an alchemist, not when it comes… — Jamie Parker Copy Share Image
“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he… — Sheldon Friedman Copy Share Image
“Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly… — Eric T. Benoit Copy Share Image
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I think we overrate experience and what we've been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“These weren't comforting nights, much less pleasant ones, but Espinoza discovered two things that helped him mightily in the early days: he… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book,… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
“The story world isn't a copy of life as it is. It's life as human beings imagine it could be. It is… — John Truby Copy Share Image
No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer,… — Andre Balazs Copy Share Image
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind… — Marcus Mumford Copy Share Image
I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
The writing is really important in books that affect me. I read for the writing. The story is usually of less interest… — James Salter Copy Share Image
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“Proust called these moments of unity between writer and reader “that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions." ( Letter to Alexander Chekhov , May 10, 1886)” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“There's nothing that isn't worth writing about. If you look closely at your life you'll find plenty to write about there, too.” — Sara Gran Copy Share Image
I never show my books to Ricky. His writing is very different, and anyway, he's only read one novel in his life:… — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them. — William G. Tapply Copy Share Image
“Hemingway suggested you write the truest sentence you know. I say write the falsest one you don’t know. This is fiction.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
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