I am asked to submit a 2-3 page synopsis to my publisher ahead of time, so by the time I begin writing,… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
When I use weed creatively, I'm much better at drawing or making something or playing music. But what I do for a… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier ,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what their take… — Isaiah Mustafa Copy Share Image
When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked… — SZA Copy Share Image
“This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
I started writing 'Southern Baptist Sissies' right after I had written the screenplay for 'Sordid Lives', so that's when I started on… — Del Shores Copy Share Image
“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I rarely sit down to write something. I usually have an experience and relate it to somebody and go, 'There I connected… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
Confessionalism relates to writers of color. I think confessional poetry is in its way very Catholic, capital C. One of the formative… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic,… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When you're writing on someone else's show, you don't have to think as hard about nailing the perfect tone because you're kind… — Dan Mintz Copy Share Image
When I was writing or competing in individual sports, it felt unfulfilling and lonely. When I was able to find a group… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“When you put yourself on the page, but it will never be good enough for anyone else, when your raw, bloody heart's… — Shveta Thakrar Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has put the leaving of… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
The more shows that are produced, the more writers are hired, producers are hired, actors are hired, directors are hired, it means… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“The notion that writings created at a time when men huddled in superstitious terror from an eclipse can possibly be a credible… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood.… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
“this was passed to writing and the content of a writing burned can no longer be handed back to memory, for writing… — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner. You evaluate the creative and how the show is run… — Robert Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate.… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“The best thing about being a writer is the ability to live vicariously through your own imagination, with no boundaries as to… — Dawn Goodwin Copy Share Image
My advice to anyone with writerly ambitions and a demanding day job is to set aside a little piece of time, even… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The… — Miguel Ferrer Copy Share Image
“The panther that has stalked you since you were a child is old now. No longer wild, and tired of guarding the… — Pat Schneider Copy Share Image
“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write … so long as we write continually as well… — Patricia Goodson Copy Share Image
“browser will only be able to apply a font if it is available to it, which is not always the case. HTML… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I came to the realization that I had failed in some respects because I had been more of a benevolent narrator than… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image