I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother,… — Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor Copy Share Image
Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Let’s face it: suffering discredits goodness. I’m agnostic in practice though faith-based in theory. I used to pray but now know he’ll… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all… — Scott Rudin Copy Share Image
“My model, such as it is, is a mentorship model, which is to say that I care personally, and I involve myself… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Usually, I think of the song, and then the video plays out in my head as I'm writing the song. I started… — Lil Dicky Copy Share Image
You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The storyteller has always been a valuable member of society. Even in prehistoric times when men hunted wild beasts and lived in… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
“Half the time I have no idea what I'm doing. The other half, I'm trying to undo what I did when I… — Suki Michelle Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've come to realize that writing 'I Ain't Living Long Like This' was an exercise in combined musical influence,… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I didn't kill myself when things went wrong I didn't turn to drugs or teaching I tried to sleep but when I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you'd be skinned alive, or… — Scott Meyers Copy Share Image
Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of… — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A written word is the choicestof relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
It's an interesting job, it's a fascinating job, I can't imagine anything that would have given me more satisfaction, and not everything… — Dennis O'Neil Copy Share Image
This is going to sound nuts but it took me forever to figure out why I'd stopped writing poetry - I mean,… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
“In the end, without skill or talent, I've given myself over entirely to poetry. Po Chu-i labored at it until he nearly… — Matsuo Bashô Copy Share Image
a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
While every historical era has its unique appeal as a setting for tales of crime and detection, the 19th century is exceptional… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself.… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the… — John Backus Copy Share Image
Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
