“...But what is it all about, what am I trying to do, is there a message? Nobody knows, and I certainly don't.… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I do not choose my listeners. What I mean is, I never write for my listeners. I think about my audience, but… — Henryk Gorecki Copy Share Image
When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I had wanted to be a writer for a very long time, and I had started a lot of books and failed… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The New York Times is an institution that attracts careerists, who are drawn to power and access. This gave me a kind… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Turn off your cell phone. Honestly, if you want to get work done, you’ve got to learn to unplug. No texting, no… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
'Luther' is raw and brutal like 'Game Of Thrones,' but it's coincidence. If I'm drawn to anything, it would be the writing.… — Rose Leslie Copy Share Image
Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Art glows with faith even in its weakest parts. At every moment, writing is an act of self-confidence – the sheerest, most… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
I didn't quite know whether I was writing for the non-Muslim or the Muslim, and at the end of the day I'm… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money,… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
We don't think about how the songs are going to translate so much during the writing process. Once the song is recorded,… — Tad Kubler Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was writing 'Traffic,' talking to top federal drug-enforcement officials and having them say they read it and found… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“And the next time I reach for my pen, it won’t be to write about you again. The sun will feel warm… — Sade Andria Zabala Copy Share Image
“Besides being a writer, I experienced seven other careers/jobs along the years: photographer, model, fashion stylist, DJ, design shop assistant, waitress, cook,… — Ioana Cristina Casapu Copy Share Image
As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My normal writing day involves three hours of actual writing, before noon, and the rest is just feeding the writing. There is… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“I travel whenever I can - every couple of years if it is possible. I always say I'm not to write books… — Ursula Torday Copy Share Image
I think, for me, there's The Book I Should Write and The Book I Wanted to Write - and they weren't the… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
I'm writing with the assumption that most of you who are reading this book have concluded what I have: Preaching doesn't workpreaching,… — Doug Pagitt Copy Share Image
Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
Time allows change to take place and the very evolution of the universe is what requires some conception of time. Mathematically can… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I don't write because I think I have anything particularly interesting to say. I write because I love writing more than any… — Stefan Merrill Block Copy Share Image
I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've… — J. R. Martinez Copy Share Image
Well, what we do is we have a script, of course. But for us, writing is also like storyboarding. It's drawing. And… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“In reality, Hemingway didn't appeal to plumbers or roofers who read books; he was a rich man's writer, with the vocabulary and… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
“You see, writers traveling to Southeast Asia visit indigenous communities. No writing quest will be complete without some cross-cultural comparisons. This exercise… — Merlin Franco Copy Share Image
