It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story –… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I always try to stick to the script because I want to respect the writers, and I want to respect the director.… — Rob Riggle Copy Share Image
Every piece of writing I've done has been something where I feel like I need to get this out of me, whether… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
“One of my former students, recently tasked with the writing of bio-ethical guidelines for a teaching hospital in southern California, noted that… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
Having gone through the [Marvel] writer program, I knew Black Panther was in the pipeline and I knew they were big fans… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
Stark looks at me and gives a tired smile. He pats the recliner, motioning for me to come over and sit down.… — Jade Copy Share Image
Writing for videogames is really unique. You learn all the rules of writing, but there's a whole other set of rules for… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That’s writing, I suppose—dozens of decisions about what’s in, what’s out, what goes with what, what’s clever but not honest, what’s so… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together.… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
“It's a misery peculiar to would-be writers. Your theme is good, as are your sentences. Your characters are so ruddy with life… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
“Theoretically there's no reason one should get [writer's block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump Grind,' then turning around… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
“I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet," scoffed Marilla. "You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste… — L. M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like,… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“In the writings of many contemporary psychics and mystics (e.g., Gopi Krishna, Shri Rajneesh, Frannie Steiger, John White, Hal Lindsay, and several… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The way that I write is very instinctual and based off raw feeling--I'm a very emotional person and I think that comes… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write… — Evan Dando Copy Share Image
Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
I'd always loved the theater, and I began by writing plays. I work in the theater a lot in the UK, and… — Lucinda Coxon Copy Share Image
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These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in… — Fouad Ajami Copy Share Image
A great nation is not saved by wars, it is saved by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by… — William James Copy Share Image
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