“Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial… — Harley King Copy Share Image
No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Somebody - and I'm going to guess it was Hitchcock - once said that everyone has their reasons. If you remember that,… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
“I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“What I like most about reading is I can read in minutes what it took the author hours to write. What I… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice… — Stanley Ellin Copy Share Image
“♔ Writing is my passion. I never want to let it go. It may be short, Fan-Fiction or purely my own work.… — BritHoran Copy Share Image
First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at,… — Carl Wilson Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to… — Julianna Margulies Copy Share Image
Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own… — Billie Eilish Copy Share Image
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. — Dan Greenburg Copy Share Image
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were… — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it,… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing… — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
“. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along,… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“Submitted for your approval--the curious case of Colleen O’Brien and the gorgeous time traveling Scot who landed in her living room.” –… — Shannon MacLeod Copy Share Image
I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs.… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
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