I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If you're spending a lot of time in the writers' room and then you're also acting, you have your foot in both… — Tom Arnold Copy Share Image
“The “evils of faction” theme recurs throughout our history, from the writings of the “muckrakers” at the turn of the twentieth century… — Edward S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever… — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I prefer to not be feeling like I'm having to be fake about things that are the most dear to me in… — Mandy Stadtmiller Copy Share Image
“A lot of aspiring writers quote the right people, but they do so like Mary Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. They quote… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
At every writers' conference, you have the opportunity to hear from best-selling authors, top literary agents, and excellent editors who will demystify… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
When people ask that question, it's very hard to nail down a formula or a circumstance that I always write in, but… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
“See this? I wrote this piece two years ago, after my parents died. I was angry. I was hurt. I wrote down… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other.… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“Jake always liked his books and stories. And writing in his diaries. It was a comfort for him. He could work through… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
“People often think of storytelling as a performative act of persuading others, conveying messages, and selling ideas. But we must recognize that… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
“Each book is a new book. I’ve never written it before and I have to teach myself how to write it as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You know, I think some people fear that if they like the wrong kind of book, it will reflect poorly on them.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context,… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
Why do people think that it's appropriate to talk to me about my body? Why do men think it's appropriate to literally… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
“One page a day, seven a week, thirty or thirty-one to the month. Fishing in his pocket for a tip, he came… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
See, even if you're stuck in life, if you can describe just exactly the way you're stuck, then you will immediately recognise… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I'm speaking to someone I'm trying to get to fall in love with me. I'm trying to speak intimately to one person.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Writers live with fear. Some writers cannot deal with the fear, and so they quit or refuse to publish. In order to… — Patrick Mcmanus Copy Share Image
“They should also write every day. They shouldn’t wait for inspiration. Carpenters don’t need inspiration to make a table. It’s their profession.… — Darrell Pitt Copy Share Image
“Being poor is neither history nor permanent but a status. Writers who begin with this sentence “X is a poorest country in… — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
Some of my good friends who were writers disappeared. Others are still inside Syria and there are others who are refugees. I'm… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
The impulse to write the poem, that impulse is a great dramatic impulse. But hell, anybody could write a play. I do… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up… — Jay Watson Copy Share Image
I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way… — Kevin Canty Copy Share Image
Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character.… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me.… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
