And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“I dont know why, but I feel some pain when she knew I was writing a lot of writing for her and… — Ariel Seraphino Copy Share Image
For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, 'Look at what's happening… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
'Don't Kill My Vibe' was made in a writing session, by Martin Sjolie and I, after he'd asked me what I'd been… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“My favorite times were spent in his backyard where he and his roommates had “let nature take its course,” the weeds towering… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept… — Gavyn Davies Copy Share Image
Writing is like acting on stage because when you write you have to make sure that your readers or audiences will really… — Christine Mae Sajo Gallego Copy Share Image
“Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
I just didn't really know who I was, so I didn't really know what I sounded like. And so I did a… — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I always have a notebook with me, I eavesdrop; I write down what people say. It's very rare that one of those… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Writing my first book, 'Beautiful,' was the time that I was able to write the truth of it - that I was… — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Most academic historians accept that historians' own circumstances demand that they tell the story in a particular way, of course. While people… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9%… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing (jaillissante) or exhausted (épuisée) life. But an… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“All deeply good characters in imaginative literature, have to be, as it were, diluted with weakness or eccentricity; for only on such… — Nicholas Murray Copy Share Image
An initial impulse of mine was to portray the way in which a city is impacted by war. But this is vague,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
When I'm writing I don't feel any pressure. It's after I'm done that I start freaking out. But really, when I'm in… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
The Bible must be the invention of either good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. It could not… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
“Every day I must prove to myself I am a writer. The knowledge goes away in my sleep. What I wrote yesterday… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, or… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
“some differences between LXX and the MT. are more frequently to be attributed to defective writing, to ignorance on the part of… — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
I trapped for 10 years, selling the hides and everything. Muskrats, raccoons, coyote, mink, beaver, otter, fox. When I figured out you… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
People have been asking me, "What advice do you have for young writers?" I tell them: a) get off social media; b)… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
