That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing'… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Like most writers, I read constantly. I used to hide in remote parts of the yard and house so I could read… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Being in a band was so fun and exciting, but I was just kind of focusing more on performance and wasn't really… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When I'm writing for certain instruments, you want to write within what you know about that instrument but also challenge the player.… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I was in musicals and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs I… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
As the years have gone on and you start to know your character better than some of the writers and directors do,… — Deborah Ann Woll Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn’t in their books. It’s better to read… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life. — Ariel Winter Copy Share Image
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get… — Michael Tolkin Copy Share Image
When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and… — Hojo Soun Copy Share Image
That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber,… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman.… — Thylias Moss Copy Share Image
