“During any prolonged activity one tends to forget original intentions. But I believe that, when making a start on A Month in… — J.L. Carr Copy Share Image
When the bad stuff was really intense in my life, it was really what you would call writer's block. Your facility is… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
“I have had great enlightenment from the writings of St. John of the Cross. When I was between seventeen and eighteen, they… — John Beevers Copy Share Image
“There's an exercise I'll do sometimes with a class in which we'll start with a word; I'll give everyone a word, and… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
A person might see that I've blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! Like, 'If that… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong.… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for… — Adam Faith Copy Share Image
When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
If you really want me to be safe, maybe it's time." "I'd just feel safer if you'd start sleeping in a coffin."… — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I think what education gives you is a voice. It gives you a way of talking to a judge. When a policeman… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“The serious writer must take serious vows…a vow of silence, except through his work. A vow of consistency, sticking with writing to… — L.E. Sissman Copy Share Image
I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy… — Jenni Rivera Copy Share Image
The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I just can't fathom tweeting, and I'd rather spend my time writing a book than a blog, but I rather grudgingly agreed… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
If I had stayed purely a horror writer or thriller writer, I might have more of a presence in those particular genres,… — Chet Williamson Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself very principled. As a travelling musician, you have to adapt and adjust to different contexts every day. It… — Moddi Copy Share Image
“- Voglio dire che io fiuto le belle storie a chilometri di distanza. Quindi non tenti di nascondermene una. Sputi fuori, forza,… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“I live precariously through my characters - so I want them to be loved passionately, live vibrantly, love unconditionally. Make friends they… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“A striking example from the history of writing is the origin of the syllabary devised in Arkansas around 1820 by a Cherokee… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I don't want to denounce musicals because they certainly have a message they want to communicate. But with straight plays, there is… — Sean Mahon Copy Share Image
For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it,… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
As much as there is joy in writing, there's always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In the business world, I did fairly well, but wasn't happy. A bout of sciatica put me flat on my back. All… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master. Our computers have trouble understanding how Homo… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll… — Sydney Lea Copy Share Image
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought:… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
