Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“Write about patriotism, about victory and defeat. Write about revolutions and rebels and prisoners and wars. About emotions, of love and hatred… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
I talk about it a lot to my students. Musicality never came up in any of own writing education, and I can… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Plenty of people were writing novels; in fact, if one did a survey in the street, half of Edinburgh was writing a… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I always begin with a source of inspiration that comes from nature. The story comes from my research, volunteering, and meeting the… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
When I was in the writers' room, all these writers were like, "Ugh, another star that they gave a writing-producing credit to."… — Lori Petty Copy Share Image
What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write.… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“A good book laces invisible fingers into the shape of a winter armchair or a hammock in the sun. I'm not talking… — Brenda Walker Copy Share Image
I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
“I see an actress smoking a cigarette in an old Fred McMurray movie. She’s clever and beautiful and manipulative. I feel envy.… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“It is not probable that the Hittite system of writing passed away without leaving its influence behind it ... There is reason… — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“...fiction writing is like duck hunting. You go to the right place at the right time with the right dog. You get… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I've always been able to write rhymes and that would be like when you consult with your girl. When I'm mad and… — Joell Ortiz Copy Share Image
I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“It takes three or four years before the present day sinks in to you as a novelist. It has not just to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who… — Michael Ellsberg Copy Share Image
You're never gonna outwrite the movement of the white clouds and the blue sky. You're never going to. There are times when… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I’ll read a book and feel it was written just for me. Then I’ll flip the book over to look at… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and… — Karl Friedrich Bahrdt Copy Share Image
Another way of saying "put it in the Book" would be that each poem we write pops up in the city of… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
