The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“{ When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Thomas Paine 's deism; a political associate,… — Roy Basler Copy Share Image
When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do… — John Romita, Sr Copy Share Image
Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“Like other kinds of intelligence, the storyteller's is partly natural, partly trained. It is composed of several qualities, most of which, in… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
You do bits and you fake anger and you write a bit and you have passion for it. Then you do it… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
I do think people need to recognize that a lot of journalists want to write a story a certain way because the… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“If I were a modern writing about a modern young woman I would have to do her wedding night in grisly detail.… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good,… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“She had a brief affair with a novelist, W. L. River, whose Death of a Young Man had been published several years… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“These essays were written at various times over a thirty-year period, to express special discoveries, to serve special needs. But they all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
I was starting to write and I was like, Okay, I'm going to cast myself in my own thing.' You have so… — Phoebe Dynevor Copy Share Image
“At the conference I was asked whether all Yugoslav writers were now forced to live in exile. I answered that I was… — Nina Živančević Copy Share Image
Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's… — Geoff Thompson Copy Share Image
I was raised to be modest to the point of fanaticism. In my family, we don't talk about ourselves to each other.… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Anyone who does creative work is familiar with this problem, and in many ways active imagination is similar to writing, painting, and… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and… — Morten Tyldum Copy Share Image
It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“All stories come from the writer's heart, and all hearts speak the same language, a wordless language ancient as time, and for… — Stan D. Jensen Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Really good writing has purpose and that purpose should be to shape other minds to desire truth and a more noble purpose… — Susan Waterfield Copy Share Image
Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not… — John Milton Copy Share Image
My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
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