Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we dream of things that we've always wanted--of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it...and… — Cassandra Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Writing is so much more problematic than drawing, full of moral pitfalls, ambiguity, public responsibility. If you record a day of your… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all… — Misty Edwards Copy Share Image
When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
“When Kafka allows a friend to understand that he writes because otherwise he would go mad, he knows that writing is madness… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
“Why do you think I'm obsessed with this idea of giving the world an alphabet-soup enema?' (This was our code language for… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because… — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Every writer on this planet THINKS he is a great writer (why waste your entire life writing when you believe you are… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories,… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I had written four scripts before I wrote Recount. Each one progressed my career a little bit, but I didn't make a… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
I've written six seasons of a TV show with great help from an incredible staff of writers and other collaborators, but I… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together. September 14, 1911: Writer and teacher… — William H. Armstrong Copy Share Image
I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really… — Geoff Zanelli Copy Share Image
You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something .… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature… — Novalis Copy Share Image
