There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Rhythm. Life is full of it; words should have it, too. But you have to train your ear. Listen to the waves… — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
“I don’t think of myself as a writer. I’m troubled and stupid like everyone else. I grew up with the streets. I… — Mian Mian Copy Share Image
The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I’m almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups,… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
“Art is made by those who consider themselves to have failed at whatever isn’t art. And of course it is loved as… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant.… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I am a poet writing of my pain. I am a person living a life of shame. I am your daughter hiding… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences.… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to… — Gregory Allen Howard Copy Share Image
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Writing in a journal each day, with a structured, strategic process allows you to direct your focus to what you did accomplish,… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
It depends on what your dream might be, as to whether or not it's still possible when you're, say, fifty or sixty.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of really good programming on television. What I've noticed, through the years of being a professional writer,… — Lauren Iungerich Copy Share Image
“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessay sentences, for the same reason that a… — William Strunk Jr Copy Share Image
I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning…Then… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Everyone asks me how I got started into writing. I wish I had some cool story to tell, but the truth is… — Jason Faris Copy Share Image
I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first.… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know… — Bernice Rubens Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to… — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
“Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
