Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident,… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
“Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did.… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
“In the Bible, God uses several different types of writing to convey his truth. There are narratives (often with commentary), preaching and… — J Stafford Wright Copy Share Image
“So for me the creative world isn’t what you do after your day job, though many professional musicians do this to make… — Jamie Freveletti Copy Share Image
Fate is a story that's been written for you by somebody else. By your parent's genes, by what happened to you when… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. That's who I am, at my core. I'm a writer, and then I learned production and administration, along the… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
I do write, I enjoy it. But I like acting. I wanna be in front of the camera as much as I… — Rob Riggle Copy Share Image
Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My favourite authors are John Grisham and Jeffrey Archer. Grisham rapidly established himself and now completely owns the legal space of fiction… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build… — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
Normally if you add information to information, you have more information. In case of my art, I destroy information, I would say,… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“Writing a personal essay or memoir addresses how a person thinks and behaves in the context of society’s prevailing moral and ethical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The biggest misconception is that I only write about shitty people. Or that I'm trying to be shocking. I just think people… — Leslye Headland Copy Share Image
A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My writing goal is just this desperation to get as much done as possible. It's never a comfortable, relaxed thing. Especially because… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“No single theologian writing in Greek or Syriac in the patristic period exercised an influence in the Christian East comparable to that… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“My books have all been very deeply felt. You don’t spend eight years of your life working on a trendy knockoff. In… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I am not one of those writers that just does songwriting one way. Personally, I think the best song will pop out… — Crosby Loggins Copy Share Image
“Humor, drama, romance, whatever genre of entertainment you create or consume is only effective if it is challenging to your sensibilities. When… — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I have people say that they love how I keep them off balance as to what is real or not real about… — Amy King Copy Share Image
When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
“In a 2016 essay, the writer and former soldier Roy Scranton describes watching Star Wars while stationed in Baghdad. He is forced… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“I want to apologize to you, Nikki. Not just, ‘hey, sorry,’ but really. Apologize.” He paused, either to let her absorb it… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
“Stop looking for that person you were in the past. She has changed. Look for the person she has grown into. She… — Chris Pepple Copy Share Image
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
