“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
There are people who are really great musicians. I've met a lot of them. And I'm not a great musician. I'm adequate… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I… — Scott Michael Foster Copy Share Image
My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of… — Katie Wech Copy Share Image
I know some people are like "I'm depressed and I'm a struggling artist" and that really works for some people, but that… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I only worked on that one movie, but then quickly realized that the path of being an assistant director was not gonna… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
There's also a lot of stuff that's not really good that gets written so I say to people who are excited about… — Josh Prince Copy Share Image
My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
“Creators of literary fairy tales from the 17th-century onward include writers whose works are still widely read today: Charles Perrault (17th-century France),… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
If I'm writing by intuition, generally that calculation works itself out. But if I'm writing a mystery, and somebody has to have… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
It's important to remind kids who obviously love writing and creating, that's it's going to be the most important part of what… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
“That's what writers do, Conroy, we wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That's how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that… — Larry Levis Copy Share Image
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
No one else writes like Gord Downie, so it's difficult to compare him. He can work in the abstract and still somehow… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm an extremely introverted and isolated writer, but I was starting to feel exhausted and as if my writing was becoming redundant.… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
[Robert] Aikman would write horror stories that weren't gore, they weren't slashers, and they weren't monster stories either. He called them ghost… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I had something to prove and went in the studio and started writing. I got into fitness and style and learned the… — Brett Eldredge Copy Share Image
We still write too many stories that are "state of the race" stories that are informed almost solely by what the polling… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I'd work on Garbage or I'd edit a song or writing here, but I was able to do a lot of things… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Blogging has mostly been an opportunity to react more immediately to experiences to try out ideas that I may end up using… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The whole relationship between a writer's spiritual/emotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
![“[Robert] Aikman would write horror stories that weren't gore, they weren't slashers, and they weren't monster stories either. He called them ghost stories. The main thing about them was the vibe. It was really disquieting. He wanted to sketch the scene so that you could see it and know the…” quote by John Darnielle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/772/john-darnielle-2176_answers_robert-aikman-would-write-horror-stories_792953.jpg)
