“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Polly finished her huge narrative during the summer term. The day after she had finished it, she went round with the oddest… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
How long do we have to deal with conservative failure? How long? Thirty years is not enough? So I would say enough… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Because I write the screenplay entirely and precisely, there is the danger that an actor might feel that this finite role is… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“You have made some notes, read some writing books, and done some research. Mostly what you've done is talk about writing a… — Pat Walsh Copy Share Image
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
I have learned patience, for sure. Pre-publication is a long waiting game, especially for authors of picture books. We write the manuscript,… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
I'm increasingly conscious of the fact that, even when we know a lot, there's an element of blind faith. For things to… — Rosalia Copy Share Image
“Corny trash, vulgar clichés, Philistinism in all its phases, imitations of imitations, bogus profundities, crude, moronic and dishonest pseudo-literature—these are obvious examples.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
“An American writer who had come to visit France . . . asked quite naturally what it was that had kept me… — Elaine Sciolino Copy Share Image
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a… — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I just want to keep going as long as I can. I'm getting older, and I want to keep growing, and I… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
I didn't go to film school. My Grampa always says just watch a lot of movies. He didn't go to film school;… — Gia Coppola Copy Share Image
I grew up playing guitar and writing music, and I always wanted to be a songwriter and a singer and play the… — Trixie Mattel Copy Share Image
Many people don't have an outlet for their feelings or how they can express life and not everybody in a relationship is… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I have often said that I think children's books are like poetry. Finding the exact right words to tell a story is… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“These works are handed down from teacher to pupil, from parent to child, almost without question, like DNA. They are memorized, recited,… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
In a way, I started 'Goon Squad' not even realizing I was writing a book. I thought I was just writing a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I have that sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David/George Costanza thing where people are like, "How did you feel writing such… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I had brief glimpses of emotional catharsis while writing. I remember reading something Philip Roth wrote about how he writes every single… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between literature and just writing in your diary. I think perhaps the difference can be measured in degrees… — Jacob Wren Copy Share Image
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The writing is therapeutic for me, it's an introverted process, I'm really inside my head. It's a really obsessive process. The live… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
