“ (1) the Muse visits during, not before, the act of composition, and (2) the writer takes dictation from that place in… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Alone with our madness and favorite flower We see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I had in effect been thrown out of graduate school because I was a lousy graduate student, and I had to find… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next.… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Marrying the right girl is even more imperative today than it was when I was 23 years old because it's so much… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I see myself as a communicator. So any way that I can, any medium, any art… — Tedashii Copy Share Image
“I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What's the trick to writing a good bad guy? Well, for me, it's always been the idea that you pit yourself against… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
I want to write for people that are trying to do some kind of quality music. What I mean by quality music… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
“Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don't describe… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised -… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak -… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Improve writing skills: 1. Keep paragraphs short. 2. Use bold and CAPS to make points. 3. Start with a question or short… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don't you buy a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And no one moans: there is no anguish. Only our nocturnal silence when we crawl on all fours toward the fires that… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“I don't know why I get jealous, since you don't make money or get any attention for it, but I guess it's… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And what you do is you go into where your anger is, if you're writing anger, you go into where your hatred… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
Work ethic and this determination is all part of escaping the depressive side. Of course I'm manic depressive, maybe not to the… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“When you start writing, your incredulity at the childish, incompetent, graceless thing you've done is shattering. One of the advantages of having… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
There is a lot of stuff I write that makes it seem like my intention is to make people think I'm speaking… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems to me that I shall never write out all the books I have in my head, because of the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“• “To us today, it is tempting to ask why societies with early writing systems accepted the ambiguities that restricted writing to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
