“Nonfiction at its best is like fashioning a cabinet. It can be elegant and very beautiful but it can never be sculpture.… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
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The greatest sin of the academic left is that it has become fundamentally aristocratic, writing in bizarre jargon that makes cliches seem… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
General irregularities are known in time to remedy themselves. By the constitution of ancient Egypt, the priesthood was continually increasing, till at… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Freedom to tell any story I want, with all the imaginary tools of my trade, is why I love writing novels. I… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.… — Niyi Osundare Copy Share Image
I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a… — Jewel Copy Share Image
All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be a journalist, honestly. I always wanted to be a writer, and I thought the only way… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
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I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!'… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The older I'm getting, the more I'm getting a writer's block or something. It's harder to come up with an idea that… — Alex G Copy Share Image
Recently, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talked about the ways the lives of human beings will be changed in the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't pick up the guitar for six months or so," "Other times I get away, go to a hotel or… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
My nutritionist says, 'If you bite it, write it.' Writing down everything that you put in your mouth really helps. I don’t… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Thank God, I'm actually infatuated and in love with what I do, therefore I am what I do. So I never have… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I had a country upbringing in a predominantly Maori community, and that contrasted with a very multi-cultured arts community in the Aro… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
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I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half,… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
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