Writing is incredibly hard. But I want to do it. That said, I make it the top priority in every day, which… — Lucy Jane Bledsoe Copy Share Image
“When we as writers take our fears, beliefs, imaginations, and research and offer them up for the Lord to use, we are… — Amy Wallace Copy Share Image
Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Never let something you want to happen in a story tie the hands of your characters and especially not your villain. If… — Alex Woolfson Copy Share Image
I love thinking about things subtextually and I actually - like for instance when I write, I actually, I'm not very analytical… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Journalism today is obviously in a major transition. Going to journalism school, learning how to write, working your way up in a… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“Writing is such an industry now. In many ways, that's a good thing, in that it removes all the muse-like mystique and… — Russell T. Davies Copy Share Image
Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I caution against communication because once language exist only to convey information, it is dying. In news articles the relation of the… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did.… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I hereby certify that the bearer of this note, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the night in question at Satan's ball, having been lured… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
Heartbreak allows us to also experience joy and love but you have to walk through heartbreak to even know what joy is.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for… — Camilo Jose Cela Copy Share Image
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
While I was writing my book, I got a top police official in Bombay an invitation to study terrorism at the Rand… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
“It’s just so typical. I’ve had writer’s block for days now− I literally couldn’t write a coherent sentence− then about a minute… — Emily Harper Copy Share Image
Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
I feel like I've got so much to do, from a music perspective. Jamie's done his record and traveled around the world… — Oliver Sim Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
My advice is: to try and stay really true to the things that make YOU laugh, as opposed to trying to create… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
“There's that thing that can happen to you when you meet somebody and you don't consider them extraordinary at all and then… — Yvonne Prinz Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to date my first love for five years. We had a very romantic, very dramatic teenage love affair.… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
Perfect Scepticismeis a disease incurable, and a thing rather to be pitied or laughed at, then seriously opposed. For when aman is… — Henry More Copy Share Image
“While writing the first draft is an exercise in shutting down all of the things we think we know so that the… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
That's such a big part of film scoring that people don't realize. There's a portion of film scoring that's writing the music,… — John Paesano Copy Share Image
There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“If, however, the poetic end might have been as well or better attained without sacrifice of technical correctness in such matters, the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher –… — John Countryman Copy Share Image
