The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront… — Ken Saro-Wiwa Copy Share Image
There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I guess when I first started writing music, I really had no idea if anyone was ever going to hear what I… — Tyler Joseph Copy Share Image
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“If the writer wants to create suspense, or build tension, or make the reader wait and wonder, or join a journey of… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 26, so I don't even know what year that was. I wrote a script for me… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
To this day, to this very day, except for television, I've never had a writer. Anything I've ever done on the stage,… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
“What did you do in your songs? I don’t know, I’ll never know, you say. Someone else will write them about me,… — Alice Notley Copy Share Image
Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I love melody, and that's what I love about pop music. The words can become what they are through a special melody.… — Anna Ternheim Copy Share Image
“I scrubbed the filth from my keyboard, and placed a coffee coaster strategically on the desk. My schedule was relatively clear, and… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
I keep writing books about why TV is good. There's nothing more fun to me than steering people toward something that I… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with… — Benee Copy Share Image
“Living is about capturing the essence of things. I go through my life every day with a vial, a vial wherein can… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Diminished circumstances had no effect on his sense of what was honorable: after The Spectator sent him a check for a piece… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Christ Took Our Punishment 21 But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“...for example, if Freud is wrong, as i and many others believe, where does that leave any number of novels and virtually… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
“I'd been writing for as long as I could remember, but once I read Otherworld, I'd stopped writing original stories to focus… — Allison van Diepen Copy Share Image
“[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
"Light Over Water" is the longest piece I have ever composed. It is a landmark in my personal struggle to create large… — Lucinda Childs Copy Share Image
The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
![“[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be ruthless. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc3/salman-rushdie-153_advice_what-rushdie-took-away-from-reading-gunt_740546.jpg)
