I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And… — Silas House Copy Share Image
I fear my taste is too good to trust myself to write a good movie. I just feel like I know what… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought!… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
To my friends and people I care about, I'm a really nice guy. No one wants to read a story where I… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
remember a feeling of excitement, of sudden inspiration, when I was visiting Giovanni Boccaccio's home in the walled village of Certaldo, outside… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
I've always been making stuff. I had a very free upbringing, and very encouraging parents. I just found that it was a… — Ida Maria Copy Share Image
For me going to war offers me the ability to write about apparently very alien, sometimes hated or despised people, who've been… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“I can't help thinking of Jackson Pollock, who poured, splattered and lashed the canvass with strings of paint. His process was about… — Jocelyn Lieu Copy Share Image
Todd Glass has amazing energy on stage. Dave Attell is one of my favorites because he's a one liner comic who is… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
“In my classes, we read great fiction obsessively, and then attempt to see how a writer managed to affect us. We try… — Dean Bakopoulos Copy Share Image
“k are you writing?’ ‘It’s a fictionalised account of the death of Archduke Ferdinand.’ ‘A historical novel then. How interesting. You understand… — Tom Wood Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is… — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In school, when I got into upper-level math, there would be times when I would wake up from a dream and have… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I always think W.S. Merwin's poems will last of anyone writing today. If I had to bet on posterity I would bet… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“I'm happy when I write. I've written my first novel, my pencil is down. My last work has been written. No turning… — Missy Salick Copy Share Image
With Halloween, the director was this genius wonder boy who was the writer, director, producer, along with his girlfriend. They were this… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot… — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
Thinking about writing as an act of celebration is sometimes a helpful framework for me. It allows me to prioritize what I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I've gone more than 40 years without having to use an alarm clock or go to an office. At this point, I… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“I write with my spine, create through my heart and defiant mind. Happy or not happy, it’s real, it’s living like blood,… — Coco J. Ginger Copy Share Image
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
“But, it didn’t matter that my mother suspected and knew that I was a writer. It was expected of me to take… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
