I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor… — Brian McDonald Copy Share Image
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But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
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My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
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The individual writer is a lonely figure in the wilderness of agents, editors, chain bookstores, and dwindling numbers of independents. The stronger… — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
As a writer, you know what the purpose of the scene is. It really has nothing to do with the actor so… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
I recognized that a lot in my writing I'm trying to show both sides of the coin - the sour and sweet.… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I wrote some weird magical realism stories that are probably on some hard drive somewhere, and if I ever uncover that hard… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
As a literature student, I put pen to paper in times of devastating tragedy, I just try to make sense of it.… — Samuel Kermis Copy Share Image
Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I really think this kind of consensual cannibalism is such a perfect analogue for the reciprocal relationship between writer and reader, and… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
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Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word.… — Harriet Doerr Copy Share Image
Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
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Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I thought 'Back To You' was a good show. The writers' strike really kind of put an end to that, though, honestly.… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
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