I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less travelled I'm patient so that's one less hassle If I dream… — Danny Denzongpa Copy Share Image
When you sit down to write a film, you direct it in your head. If you are writing a scene, you are… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I first wrote for adults, but when I started writing for young people, it was the most creative and liberating experience of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Making music has been connected to one of my greatest heartaches, because my own music has never quite connected with audiences. But… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended to younger… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Writing is akin to method acting. Before the writer can render a fully convincing world, he or she must inhabit that world,… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Why does a writer labor over nuance and context if it won't be respected, if a critic insists on ignoring the writing… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I don't find a lot of people actually saying things through music any longer. They are not trying to say anything with… — Robben Ford Copy Share Image
Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
I could tell I was going to like this guy. We partied hard the rest of the night and I dont remember… — Jade Copy Share Image
A journey through the Mediterranean is not only inspiring and stimulating, it is also humbling. The men and women who created antique… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Before the internet, a journalist would write an article about a company that the company felt was unfair and missed a point.… — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
“Looking at the sky, he suddenly saw that it had become black. Then white again, but with great rippling circles. The circles… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
“Writing should be a little bit grainy, it should be a little bit raw. It should be every single thing flowing inside… — Gregory Sherl Copy Share Image
Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I'm not really caught up with celebrity women. I think a regular girl that goes to school or works at a Complex… — Wale Copy Share Image
In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“To write entire pages of dazzling prose about a tomato -- for Pierre Arthens reviews food as if he were telling a… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I feel as though I never had choice not to be a writer. I feel in my heart of hearts that writing… — Jerdine Nolen Copy Share Image
I've always been creative verbally, had a flair, my teachers said - wrote great expository essays in elementary school, scribbled little poems,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“In between the two were the writers of the Apostolic Tradition, who forbade a catechumen or baptized believer from entering the legions,… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
While writing 'Bhavesh,' I pretty much chewed up every single graphic novel I could get my hands on, so all the way… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
“When I should have been producing obscure volumes of verse entitled the Triumph of Humpty Dumpty or the Nose with the Luminous… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.'… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
