I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I feel like I always learn when I'm writing, even when I'm not writing about myself. I'm careful not to judge; I… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
“Writers as diverse as Wordsworth and Freud, as Blake and Dickens have all hypothesized that the turbulence and intensity we feel as… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a… — Wilfred Thesiger Copy Share Image
Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
“Writers have come to master nearly every trade. They are inventors and entrepreneurs of character, plot, and dialogue. They are the eager… — Garrett Dennert Copy Share Image
“When I’m writing, I’m trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I like to allow young readers to keep writing in their heads after they've finished reading. Not to leave the ending too… — Amy King Copy Share Image
“The doctrines of original sin, election, and effectual calling, final perseverance, and all those great truths which are called Calvinism – though… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
For a profession that holds dear both the ability to vivisect politicians in prose and the expectation that these carved-up subjects will… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
“Writing has been sewn into my soul and I'm afraid my thoughts have no choice but to be the truth to the… — Amber M. Royse Copy Share Image
I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“I have no idea what will happen when I write. One night I wrote effortlessly for hours, churning out one brilliant paragraph… — Rich Ritter Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to… — Nadia Ali Copy Share Image
I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
When my career started on daytime soaps, those characters usually didn't have much depth to them. The main goal was to memorize… — Andrea Navedo Copy Share Image
The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because… — Vittorio Vandelli Copy Share Image
“Ideas never stop, dear S, they're everywhere, in everything - all we have to do is be open to them. And stories… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going… — Floyd Mayweather, Jr Copy Share Image
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think those women who get themselves to write essays, it's not an easy thing to do because as women, you're not… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
