Luckily, I remembered something Malcolm Cowley had taught us at Stanford - perhaps the most important lesson a writing class (not a… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
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There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
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I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers… — Robert S Ellwood Copy Share Image
Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I was surrounded by… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
MCs get a little bit of love and think they hot, Talkin bout how much money they got...all y'all records sound the… — Stic.man Copy Share Image
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“The black newspaper writers were nearly unanimous in their support for integration, and so were the owners of Negro-league teams, even though… — Jonathan Eig Copy Share Image
We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
As a writer I feel more like a filter than a performer. I absorb and observe and then I name scatterings of… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
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I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
The question of identity has always been a murky issue in my own life and my writing bounces that right back. My… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there’s… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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“Good writing arises out of obsession. With obsession there is emotional depth and a certain weight and gravity to the language and… — Fred Arroyo Copy Share Image
I like to work with multiple sections because they lend themselves to the structure of the poem: its intensifications and arcs and… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
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“We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kinddealing with Texasis the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you are writing a spoken word poem, the tools you're working with are your voice, your body, how it's going to… — Phil Kay Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was writing a lot. I dealt with my high school angst by writing short plays… — Susanna Fogel Copy Share Image
I was talking to one of the writers about our target audience, and he was insulted that I used that term. But… — Michael Bay Copy Share Image
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