When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are 'writers,' we are not supposed to be interested in filthy lucre, we are supposed to be starry eyed artistes. ...… — Max D. Adams Copy Share Image
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In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“What does the absolutely final deadline apply to? What book?" If there was one book that did not cry out for a… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
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All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
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It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Here's Iraq, where irrigation was invented, where law was invented, where writing was invented. All these things that we consider necessities of… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted… I find myself… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won.… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
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I know there is gender imbalance in the spec fic field, and it concerns me very much. We live in a gender-biased… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
Writing about fashion forces you to overcome the nagging feeling that fashion doesn't "matter", that it's trivial or fleeting. I just look… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Maybe we, the cultural workers , could apply ourselves. We're not going to resolve it in this moment or even in this… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm always reading. Here's where an ebook reader really comes into its own. When I travel, it allows me to carry a… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
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I absolutely don't write for women - far, far from it. It's so not what I want to do. Some of the… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just… — Zak Orth Copy Share Image
I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
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Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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