A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Flexibility, openness and softness are consorting with life. When you are rigid and you know the answer and don't listen to other… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of… — Margaret Mazzantini Copy Share Image
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
As a storyteller, I've always been fascinated with the idea of recreating this notion of choices in fiction. My dream was to… — David Cage Copy Share Image
...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I've also learned to only write songs and melodies that really work for my voice and that I won't have issues doing… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
Many theaters are tackling the multifaceted work of black writers - established and emerging. Now the next step is for them to… — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
I remember looking at my dad and wanting to understand him. I didn't want to just write the guy off. He was… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
“When it comes to who will like your writing; the ones who will like it will like it because they can relate… — Beverly S. Harless Copy Share Image
Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy.… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The thing about writing or making art is that I'm not thinking about that stuff while I'm doing it. Like the driver's… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction.… — Donna Levin Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,'… — Amanda McBroom Copy Share Image
I wake up every day super excited to be a woman! It's amazing. I wouldn't have it any other way. There's an… — Mariko Tamaki Copy Share Image
I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a… — Daniela Pestova Copy Share Image
I had people read it early on and, you know, well-meaning people said to me, you should take out the blogs. I… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
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The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“The truth about any artist, however terrible, is better than the silence… I know many writers fight fanatically to keep their published… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
Writing is an art but also a craft, which means it's a job. I don't teach. This is how the groceries get… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the diary demands, in a way, the maximum fictionalizing of the utterer and the addressee. Writing is always a kind of… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else.… — Teddy Pendergrass Copy Share Image
We live in a country where posting 'Let's riot or something bruv!' on Facebook will get you a couple of years in… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm writing about the things I see all around me. Growing up in Mississippi, I've seen how these backward ideas about class… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When I decided to write a novel about Istanbul, I thought I should put the different faces of Istanbul into one book.… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
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“Remember to write continuously the entire twenty minutes. And never forget that this writing is for you and you alone. At the… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
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