Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good,… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never… — John Irving Copy Share Image
We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Anyone who does creative work is familiar with this problem, and in many ways active imagination is similar to writing, painting, and… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and… — Morten Tyldum Copy Share Image
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy,… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“All stories come from the writer's heart, and all hearts speak the same language, a wordless language ancient as time, and for… — Stan D. Jensen Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Really good writing has purpose and that purpose should be to shape other minds to desire truth and a more noble purpose… — Susan Waterfield Copy Share Image
I'm always conscious when I'm writing a story that the women in my books need to save themselves. They don't need to… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“A good book, Marcus, is judged not by it's last words but by the cumulative effect of all the words that have… — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“They preferred writing about great men to writing about great hills; but they sat on the great hills to write it. They… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is the enemy of the author. There is a difference between good writing habits and perfectionism. The author who displays good… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
The secret to writing sound effects is having a room you can be alone in, trying to make the sounds yourself, and… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
That's such a wonderful thing about the mixing process is when you write the demo or the track, [and] it sort of… — Lizzy Plapinger Copy Share Image
“There are a couple of utterly important rules to writing anything, whether it's a novel, a short story or a collection of… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You cannot overestimate the role of intuition in fiction writing. Or the role of accident or randomness. These things are very central.… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
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