“This too to remember. If a man writes clearly enough any one can see if he fakes. If he mystifies to avoid… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Present-day worthy poets’ and writers’ writings and books should be added to the syllabus and studied in the schools, colleges and universities… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
Everybody has their own approach to songwriting. When you're an electronic musician, the whole writing process just depends. Some people have a… — Travis Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm not writing necessarily for an audience. I think about the audience at the end, once I have a complete book. But,… — Crystal Hana Kim Copy Share Image
I was fortunate because I had parents who believed that being a writer was a perfectly acceptable thing to want to be.… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just… — Nicola Monaghan Copy Share Image
It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Everyone likes to stereotype things or write them off as not that serious or "this is just a phase," especially when you're… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
People would say, "Well yeah, if I wrote action films, if I wrote the trash that you write, I could make millions… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I wouldn't exclude writing another song in German, but I don't want to translate songs anymore. We used to sit down and… — Bill Kaulitz Copy Share Image
“In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment.… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“You'll write to me, won't you?" Albus asked his parents immediately, capitalizing on the momentary absence of his brother. "Every day, if… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The reason I write is because I have questions. What I don't want is for people to forget that I'm a novelist… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing...… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In terms of the economics, yes obviously the rise of e-books and how people choose to read books has a big effect… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book.… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for… — Angeles Mastretta Copy Share Image
“I made tiny newspapers of ant events, stamp-sized papers at first, then a bit bigger, too big for ants, it distressed me,… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Writing is so... I don't know, it's such a practice, and I feel very unpracticed in it, because I'm not doing it… — Tamara Jenkins Copy Share Image
When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
I think we tend to write more uplifting and vibrant music when we're in bleak and lonely surroundings. I think it's because… — Ed MacFarlane Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do find that people are incredibly naive about what it is to be a writer. Like you would pay an incredible… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
In college, I was a researcher/writer for 'Let's Go: Europe,' assigned to Crete and Cyprus. I was supposed to go to England,… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating… — Beah Richards Copy Share Image
Who isn't crazy sometimes? Who hasn't driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn't haunted a certain… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
When I lived in China, my works were already being banned, and I couldn't publish. In those days, when I was in… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere;… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
I like writing for other people. I love it. It's great because you write it and then you hand it off to… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
For a long time, I have been wanting to write a book for singles that would help them in the dating process… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking...the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself… — Dennis Covington Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem starts because I feel the urge to write about something from which I carry a great deal of shame,… — Bao Phi Copy Share Image
In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
