“One of my favourite things to do when I write is to bring a sense of wonder to a normal everyday setting...… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I've come to the possible conclusion that being a comedic writer/director is like running track. You do it for a certain amount… — David Wain Copy Share Image
I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
“With McClure’s support, Steffens embarked on an odyssey. For the better part of three years, he called on people in St. Louis,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I'm not an ad-libber. If I'm asked to ad-lib, I can ad-lib forever and it's really fun to do that, but I… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know,… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I think I can work anywhere, but you don't get the same kind of inspiration everywhere. New York theater has become a… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“There were times, in the beginning, when I used my journal as a wailing wall, but I learned not to immortalize the… — Phyllis Theroux Copy Share Image
I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror… — Peter James Copy Share Image
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write... ...writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“. . .You are preparing to make it possible to live in the writer’s dream, by learning to market your writing skills,… — Terry Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“Because his art is such a difficult one, the writer is not likely to advance in the world as visibly as do… — john gardner Copy Share Image
“Becoming a writer is a lifelong journey. It cannot be learned in a day or even a month or a year. We… — Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart Copy Share Image
My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school:… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“My love of publishing goes back to my first job on the hometown newspaper when I was a 16-year-old cub reporter, but… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this… — Alain De Botton Copy Share Image
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I did The 'Acid Test' at the Royal Court, by Anya Reiss, who's the most wonderful, amazing female writer. She was only… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
