Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the… — Edna Buchanan Copy Share Image
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“Writing is not about stats, numbers, or selling. Writing is about touching that someone other with your words, to share your bliss.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“I wrote about the things I discovered along the way and about how whether we believe it or not, everything we need… — Andrew Kendall Copy Share Image
I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I like to write in fairly everyday language - I've always tried to write lyrics that, if people would speak the words,… — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life… — Deborah Kara Unger Copy Share Image
I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really… — Tom Verica Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
It's a huge responsibility writing about people who are alive. It's the thing about writing that keeps me awake at night: dramatising… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
I was reluctant to talk about my kids on the blog. I kept telling myself, "People aren't coming here for stories about… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“A printing press that can write its own books? A mind that thinks about itself? If I don’t have it, at least… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
“Looking at herself in the mirror, she never forgot that death was hovering behind that face. Faint yet tenacious, like black writing… — Han Kang Copy Share Image
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location. — James MacArthur Copy Share Image
I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and… — Shakira Copy Share Image
I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too. — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life’s traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I have carpal tunnel so I can't write more than four hours total without tingling numbness. I take a lot of breaks… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
“Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
