Why are you uncomfortable with the supernaturalist worldview of the biblical writers? Evangelicals don't want to just say, "Well, the inspired writers… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“Modern women are frustrated and angry, their experience is limited; modern men are obsessed with the letter “I”; their writing is full… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
The writer, Ruth Jhabvala, livedin India but was German. My partner Ismail Merchant was from Bombay but was educated in England and… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
I'm self-critical but also, I'm not a very modest person. I'm self-critical in the lead-up to showing anyone anything. You know how… — Marika Hackman Copy Share Image
I'm not only a writer, but have directed and produced, know the difficulties of the line producer, can deal with the studio,… — John Lee Hancock Copy Share Image
At this writing I can't even shut my lower jaw because of inadequate health care. I can't chew my food, I have… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
Things like rhyming - it just wasn't falling out of my head that way. So I started to get quite freaked out… — Elena Tonra Copy Share Image
I knew if I evoked that stuff too easily or gratuitously, as a way of assuaging my fears of not being edgy… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“All you fearless, magnificent scribers, writers and authors… In each story I see your triumphs, your tragedies, your trials by night… Each… — K McDonald Andrews Copy Share Image
I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Do you know how many great writers, musicians, artists, scientists, inventors, theologians, and statesmen have died poor? All of them! You can't… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think the songs I was writing after Aeroplane were full of a lot of undealt-with pain that was just a little… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
“One conceivable way to discriminate between a scientific intellectual and a literary intellectual is by considering that a scientific intellectual can usually… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
I grew up - my dad, every time I was with my dad, he was always - not always, but he wrote.… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
“I never knew why or how writing could be so important until I learned about the no-talking rule and found that writing… — Karol Jackowski Copy Share Image
I hope that if the people who read my work encounter people in the real world who are like the characters that… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn,… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
“But the truth is it’s hard for me to know what I really think about any of the stuff I’ve written. It’s… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks.… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“NINA Your life is beautiful. TRIGORIN I see nothing especially lovely about it. [He looks at his watch] Excuse me, I must… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that.… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It can be stressful if I wrote something that I realize doesn't sound right. I can write something at home and be… — Katie Dippold Copy Share Image
“His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
My first album deals with my anxiety. It wasn't like, to heal my anxiety and by writing an album I'm now healed.… — Visionist Copy Share Image
![“I knew if I evoked that stuff too easily or gratuitously, as a way of assuaging my fears of not being edgy or whatever, the writing would fall apart. This book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was going to have to have some earnestness in it.” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/794/george-saunders-317_book_i-knew-if-i-evoked-that-stuff-too-easily_407342.jpg)
![“The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.” quote by Nikki Giovanni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/nikki-giovanni-1757_advice_the-only-advice-for-new-writers-and-poet_644351.png)
![“NINA Your life is beautiful. TRIGORIN I see nothing especially lovely about it. [He looks at his watch] Excuse me, I must go at once, and begin writing again. I am in a hurry. [He laughs] You have stepped on my pet corn, as they say, and I am getting excited, and a little cross. Let us discuss…” quote by Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc7/anton-chekhov-298_beautiful-life_nina-your-life-is-beautiful-trigorin-i-s_3033730.jpg)
