Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers. — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward. — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container.… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time’s arrow moves the other way.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's. — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
In the 80s, in the cover band I was in, we'd slip in original material. If you didn't say anything about it,… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words for the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Don't do another show just because someone thinks that there's a dollar to be earned there. Do it because you love the… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
When we started writing this kind of music in the beginning, I didn't think that many people would listen to it, but… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Donald Trump creates word salads. And that is awful to language, because we try to parse out what he's saying and try… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“... writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The end of the third millennium saw the arrival in the east of Amorite ... who settled west of Euphrates ... and… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one's an outsider looking on, it's all such… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, "It's not like you don't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice,… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays. — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers,… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write… — Ian Jack Copy Share Image
“I am a passionate, not an intellectual writer, which means my characters must plunge ahead of me to live the story” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention.… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
