I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've… — Kaitlyn Dever Copy Share Image
“The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“I wrote about myself so I wouldn't become paralyzed by rumination—so I could stop thinking about what had happened and be done… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
Writing 'Deathstroke' presents a number of challenges to me. As a Christian, as a minister, it's difficult for me to write a… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“In the years when I discoverd the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“It don't take no great skill to write down a story. All you have to do is put one word after the… — Kei Miller Copy Share Image
I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
“Everyone has an urge to create. Its expression may flow through many channels: through writing, art or music, through the inventiveness of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“Witnessing the panoply of beauty in all of nature takes us out of our shell of self-absorption and makes us realize that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“This scene came from the writing I did with Bill in New York, working out of an office in the Director’s Guild… — Danny Rubin Copy Share Image
Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I can't fault other writers and directors for how they choose to present themselves, but I just think people are very… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Not that I don't think irreverent humor and someone being filthy is funny, I just do what I do. Any comedian would… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
“If creative fiction writing is a process of translating an abstraction into the concrete, there are three possible grades of such writing:… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He… — Brad Gooch Copy Share Image
