“Art is a conversation we are all invited to and are all worthy to participate in. Yes, great works can be intimidating,… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I come from a place of darkness when I write because I'm always trying to figure things out. It's kind of like… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
Read Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. Then do what it says, including the tasks you think are impossible. You will particularly… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
“This melodrama differed from others in that it was not written, it was to be played impromptu, and only once; after that… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“November 2014, focus on science communications full-time. I now work for a cancer charity, “translating” science into English for fundraising teams. My… — Sam Maggs Copy Share Image
I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
“Thus, neither of us is alive when the reader opens this book. But while the blood still throbs through my writing hand,… — Vladimir Nabakov Copy Share Image
I find the middle classes kind of boring. The middle class has kind of been beaten like a dead horse by fictional… — David Means Copy Share Image
“This book is written for the professional writer who is making a living, but just barely. It is also for the aspiring… — Mary Moreno Copy Share Image
“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“I danced before I wrote. Everything my mentor, Marjorie Mussman, teaches about movement -- creating focus, taking chances, making an unequivocal statement… — Jane F. Kotapish Copy Share Image
“Gansey looked at the handwritten ticket for the pizza in his hand. According to the bubbly writing, their waitress’s name had been… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I think it's so important to write from an honest place, because if I don't do that, I'll just end up writing… — Griff Copy Share Image
It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Building a person’s character is just as important as reading, writing and arithmetic. By instilling values such as obedience to authority, promptness… — Dr. Tim Elmore Copy Share Image
If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
When I came to L.A., I absolutely fell in love with the energy of the place. It's such a creative hub, so… — Costa Ronin Copy Share Image
When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
“Being female was not something that ever held Jessica back. “I was used to getting everything I wanted and working hard for… — Lynn Povich Copy Share Image
Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side.… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
