Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution… — David Allen Copy Share Image
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“In this time when writing long letters was everyday practice, men of normal sensibility saw these cards as the most crabbed of… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that… — Gillian Welch Copy Share Image
“You can be anything in Pittsburgh, a stripper, a writer, a student, a bartender, or something else, or everything else, all of… — Dave Newman Copy Share Image
Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“If you have a desire to write, that means there's stuff in you that wants out. And if you don't write things… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon… — Hafez Copy Share Image
I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
“For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve done the time but wonder… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
People have got to stop fat-shaming and writing bad stuff. I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to be around for a long… — Gemma Collins Copy Share Image
One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more… — John Cage Copy Share Image
There used to be one writer rather than a team of writers. It's the old line about a camel being a horse… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“Seeing old photographs, we get enamored by the memories we made which will keep tugging at our heart-strings forever and ever...” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I like writing about what to me are like questions that I have about myself and the human condition. I find quantum… — Kirsten Vangsness Copy Share Image
“Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter… — Katrina Monroe Copy Share Image
“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
“Many people think that the idea is the difficult part of writing a story, and this can be true. But there is… — William Herring Copy Share Image
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