Anyway... I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need… — Hal Zina Bennett Copy Share Image
You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those. — T-Pain Copy Share Image
It took me a while to affirm the fact that I'm actually a really good writer. I couldn't even call myself a… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
“The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Because we were both writers and both worked at home our days were filled with the sound of each other's voice” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“I hear you're a writer,' said 2040..."What are you writing about?' Not liking to discuss my writing with strangers, I had been… — Phoebe Damrosch Copy Share Image
I try to treat writing as part of my daily routine: I write for at least two hours, five days per week.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Then little writings and recordings that thankfully continue to come up. I'm in this kind of wonderful, kind of awkward, off-putting, and… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order,… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- theyll go through anything. You read and youre pierced. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Jay Abraham's client sent him $50,000 a month for a long time for writing one headline. That's what people who understand communication… — Eben Pagan Copy Share Image
I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it… — B. J. Chute Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world.” — Kay Kenyon Copy Share Image
A sports writer who covers baseball could go up to Tony La Russa and have a real baseball argument, and Tony would… — Colin Cowherd Copy Share Image
I think people were a little premature in writing off violent movies. They're going to continue being made, and audiences will continue… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre. — Elaine Paige Copy Share Image
There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime… — Benjamin Britten Copy Share Image
Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I… — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms. — Lisa Whelchel Copy Share Image
I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs." — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
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