I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party,… — Jill Clayburgh Copy Share Image
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
“Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of… — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Any character who goes after a desire and is impeded is forced to struggle (otherwise the story is over.) And that struggle… — John Truby Copy Share Image
We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
You have a huge number of people who spend their time writing papers which show that migrants pay more to the country… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
I am not a writer, But I have written Our love story. I am not a poet, But I wrote for you… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I'm pushing myself in other, slower directions. Some of the stuff that I'm writing is not necessarily so speedy; it's a different… — Christopher Paul Stelling Copy Share Image
I think the biggest challenge I have faced is that I have struggled most of my life with often crippling depression which… — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
When my syndicated show got canceled, the next day I still knew how to write jokes. That was a huge revelation. Because… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their… — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
“I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“If the voices in your head make you cry, you're a lunatic. Put their words on paper, and you're a writer.” — D. VonThaer Copy Share Image
The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until… — Fashawn Copy Share Image
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch… — Nell Leyshon Copy Share Image
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same? — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have… — Morgan James Copy Share Image
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I'm the author of my own life. unfortunately I'm writing in pen. mistakes I make can't be erased, the only option is… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image