What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem -… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
I want to write and direct, but I don't think if I did it for 100 years I would ever come close… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We're always being told 'find your voice.' When I was younger, I never really knew what this meant. I used to worry… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Historical romance is still very strong in the market. Writers of historical romance are making the bestselling lists on a regular basis… — Madeline Hunter Copy Share Image
“Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men… — Hector Carsewell Macpherson Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“The concept of a writer writing a vivid and accurate scene in a language transparent and devoid of decoration so that we… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'm just very sort of compulsive and lack the ability to keep things in perspective. If I'm not writing or playing guitar… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Everyone that I meet always wants me to direct, but whenever I think of directing, I think of aligning shots. I'd definitely… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released… — Mrinalini Sarabhai Copy Share Image
When I start writing a poem, I can usually know quite early on whether it's a lineated or prose poem, but I… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote… — Patty Hearst Copy Share Image
“I am so happy that I made someone cry today - don't worry I'm a writer. It's when they make me cry… — Tina Smith Copy Share Image
Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts,… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it… — Isaac Brock Copy Share Image
Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. Isaac Bashevis Singer” — Emma Paul Copy Share Image
I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening. — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
I like to write about a lot of things, which is why my books are different. This is probably why I don't… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
We need to encourage more women to write roles for other women. The great substantive roles aren't being written for women and… — Trudie Styler Copy Share Image
“Love was for dummies, soulmates were the creation of pulp-fiction writers; romance was craved by ageing, lonely cat owners. Successful relationships were… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
