The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
“Where do you get your ideas?' people are always asking authors they admire, which I’ve always thought was another way of asking,… — Suzanne Berne Copy Share Image
I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“Write and rewrite until you fall in love with what you have created. Your final draft should move you and make you… — Pol Bard Copy Share Image
A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start - the way a map that shows… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“RACHEL MADDUX | ON STAYING HUNGRY Hunger is everything because it’s nothing - not yet - just raw promise, one lack that… — Rachael Maddux Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
“I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there's lots to write about.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There is some pressure when you are a woman doing what I do that you must support all other women unconditionally, no… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women,… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
I wanted music to be a career. To base everything on fame to me seemed a dangerous thing - I wanted my… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
I started writing my first book for young people when I was in college. I was only a couple of years out… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything I would rather not - rather do than get up and not do anything. I have to… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
That's one of the great things about creativity. You labor away in a room, and when you're writing a film, it couldn't… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
The whole idea is that the combination of tight activity and slack activity allows me to be both productive and creative at… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
“Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
At the age of 10 I started writing to the BBC about getting into broadcasting. It went on for years. I was… — Phillip Schofield Copy Share Image
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. By… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“People think writing is an easy job, and in some ways it is. Flexible hours, no boss, no real structure . . . but… — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
“The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium--are a representation of the… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
