“the only unfailing guide I’ve ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen,… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I had requested all who might find aught meriting censure in my writings, to do me the favor of pointing it out… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“I started the first drafts of the book during my sophomore year of college. I wasn’t thinking at all about kids at… — Caleb J. Ross Copy Share Image
Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I want to start a thing that encompasses music, film and writing as well. I dont think Ive established myself enough in… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“Read your work aloud, if you can, if you aren't too embarrassed by the sound of your voice ringing out when you… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and… — Lee Bermejo Copy Share Image
Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us,… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
If I got dropped tomorrow or every single I released from now on tanked, I'd be devastated, but I'd also still be… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
In many parts of the world, including the Arab world, the Latin American world, and even parts of the Western world, there… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s shit. These are the things all the great philosophers just won’t tell you flat out about… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“Now a narrative is a story, not logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everywhere I find the signature, the autograph of God, and he will never deny his own handwriting. God has set his tabernacle… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between… — John Green Copy Share Image
“A Cyclops on a unicycle juggling three giant eyeballs couldn’t compare to the balanced vision my writing presents. In fact, noted linguist… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
At the end, I cobbled scenes all together and smoothed out the transitions as much as possible. Incidentally, I would not recommend… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
For me, writing music is a good way to say what's on my mind. It's less vulnerable in a way, less embarrassing,… — Aaron Lines Copy Share Image
A friend of mine helped me find my confidence by trusting the knowledge that I was not alone in writing my first… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As an actress, I think it’s important to look back and realize that we aren’t always quite as original as we think… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
“History deals with situations and figures not imaginary but real. It demands therefore a combination of qualities unnecessary to the poet or… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
No marshmallows. "I don't believe this! I'm going to write the president of General Mills! Don't they have any quality control?" "I'm… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in year one and year two, I had troubles with reading and writing, and my mum took… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control… I think it's very much like dreaming or like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm moving - as a person and as a writer - through time. I'm a different age. I'm thinking about different things.… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
