“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think,… — David Bowker Copy Share Image
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In my opinion there are two basic questions that any writer tries to answer. "What is?" is the question non-fiction asks. "What… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our… — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Writing, directing - it's just torture every time and it doesn't seem to get any easier. And yet I love them and… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad. — Owen King Copy Share Image
The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. .… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I know that people look at my life and ask, "How can I achieve some of those things?" So, I suppose in… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
With 'Slave Ambient', I was writing things on top of loops. Now I really get the structure of the song down, but… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If I wish to write anything across the pages of your life that I do not wish to ascribe my name to,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
As an inveterate lover of mystery, cracking the code of a writer's true identity has the same effect, for me, as tasting… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping… — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I'm way more in my head acting than I am when I'm writing. So there's a weird love/hate on both ends. But… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to… — Davy Rothbart Copy Share Image
I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
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