One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect… — Jack White Copy Share Image
The thing is, the way we write is all jams and bits and pieces that get pieced together and sometimes things are… — Danny Carey Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a very important person. But I was the second woman to write a novel in Iran, and… — Shahrnush Parsipur Copy Share Image
I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that.… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldn’t… — Thor Benson Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I'm working on a young adult novel. I've been working on it for a while, because I don't know how to write… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
“ The Lake Isle O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves, Give me in due time, I beseech you, a… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision.… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
I have always trusted writers, books, thinkers, psychologists in figuring things out. Maybe because they don't know me, so they are always… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos , or the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Everybody comes to the planet with certain gifts. It may be writing, it may be acting, it may be singing, it may… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
When I started Kernel in 2016, my objective was to make the most revolutionary advance in the field of neuroscience around reading… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
“...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper,… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You know what needs to be done when you're a writer. You know what the job is, particularly if you're an African… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my… — Charles Foster Johnson Copy Share Image
My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places… — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
Arnold Schwarzenegger has still not officially bowed out of this race. It looks like he's not gonna run. But I'll tell ya,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings. One may tell the reader that the character went… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
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As I've been teaching longer and longer, I realize I learn so much from the voices I'm naturally drawn to, the writers… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about… — Mike White Copy Share Image
When I write my annual tax column, some ex-IRS agent will complain, "There you go IRS bashing again." They're always saying that… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature… — George Washington Copy Share Image
![“I'm working on a young adult novel. I've been working on it for a while, because I don't know how to write a novel and I'm teaching myself. For that reason, I've been reading a lot of YA [young adults], which I never have before. It's totally new to me.” quote by Morgan Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/335/morgan-parker-6193_adults_i-m-working-on-a-young-adult-novel-i-ve_2238580.jpg)
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