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I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
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Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Usually, the way I write is to sit down at a typewriter after that year or so of what passes for thinking,… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives open. That alone… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
I knew what I didn't want, and I knew whatever it was going to be it had to be believable and it… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely.… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed ...… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that's not… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
I know there are other writers who sit down religiously every morning, they take their espresso, they put a clean sheet of… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs. If you're a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“the best of luck in improving their English writing skills. However, in saying that, it's not up to luck so much as… — Stephen E. Dew Copy Share Image
“No, this was the career I wanted; a writer could be employed for as long as she could hold a pencil; for… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
I would write down the lyrics to 'C.R.E.A.M.' in Korean - not translating it, but phonetically writing out each word. I didn't… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When you write a scene where somebody is afraid of something you instantly go to decades of genre cinema: horror, suspense, and… — Kleber Mendonca Filho Copy Share Image
Every time I sit down and write I got to put something conscious in there. It's like I got a job now.… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
The writer who is literally an addict, the writer who can't help himself, the writer who HAS to write, can never be… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
I'd love to write full time. But it's not something that is due to me because I'm a writer. Times are very… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
For me, the Bild-Dichtung [image-poem] is the ideal form, because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing.… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
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Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
The angels don't care what words you use. They appreciate the engraved, fancy prayers, but they say, "Just talk to us." You… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
I want to write a score for a film. It can be a proper film, maybe for a film kind of like...… — Flume Copy Share Image
We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of… — George Arthur Buttrick Copy Share Image
Too many writers think that all you need to do is write well-but that's only part of what a good book is.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
We never like to miss an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of our life. That's why I never like to have… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Try and maybe write a couple of articles for your local paper. Perhaps you need to go to college to learn some… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image