“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Satan has frightened men from reading the sacred writings, and has rendered Holy Scriptures contemptible, so as to ensure his poisonous philosophy… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to… — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
During that first year, I felt guilty that my wife was out working bringing in all our income, while I was at… — George Stephen Copy Share Image
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“It is for this reason that Aristotle recommends that the writer begin "in the middle of things" and fill in the exposition… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. We ain't pretty, but we're on the road. Many of us… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.… — N.H. Kleinbaum Copy Share Image
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“When I was in high school, all my friends said they were going to be writers. And I thought, How come you… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
I'm a different writer now. You don't sit in a room with Sopranos creator David Chase and writer Terence Winter for four… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it,… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.' — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I didn't like writing just articles and things. So then I wandered around. I tried my hand at film and television and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“My hunger for writing will die when I have bled for the humans that never found the strength to find the words… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I don't want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep… — Exene Cervenka Copy Share Image
“A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold; the gist of the matter is to… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of… — James Hamilton-Paterson Copy Share Image
The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing… — Blaine Lee Pardoe Copy Share Image
You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine.… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and… — Roberta Gellis Copy Share Image
I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I love stand-up. I look at it as a way to always stay productive. I couldn't imagine only being an actor or… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them. — Bob Greene Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
