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Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate… — Alcuin Copy Share Image
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I think that's just what happens when you write a big bestseller. After that you need to find out: What's the best… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along,… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“A successful writer is not a millionaire or best seller. A successful writer is one that has touched another human being with… — James Mason Copy Share Image
“He wasn't, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us-- except of course to… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“I knelt to examine the floor, and there it was, in tiny writing, quite fresh it seemed, scratched with a pin or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
“Two things consistently bring me pleasure: hot sweet tea and writing. Which is not to say that either are particularly good for… — Ariel Gordon Copy Share Image
The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as… — J. V. Cunningham Copy Share Image
We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the… — Eric Partridge Copy Share Image
I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
In OVW, it was like a different world, pretty much. They had the talent ready to stay around for a while, with… — Drew McIntyre Copy Share Image
If I'm writing with or for someone else, it just has to feel true and real for them. It has to feel… — Finneas Copy Share Image
“But perhaps the real reason we keep writing is the hope naïve perhaps that we’ll make a better job of it next… — Geoff Nicholson Copy Share Image
“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Nick Flynn is another writer I admire - his fragmented sections, his playfulness with genre, his urgency. The palette in his work… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“LEARN FROM THE MASTERS: Mark Twain once said, “Show, don’t tell.” This is an incredibly important lesson for writers to remember; never… — Colin Nissan Copy Share Image
Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Writing for publication is an art, a craft, and a business, so you need to develop skill sets in multiple areas. You… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that… — Sara Suleri Copy Share Image
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“This is something I've learned from writing my own short stories, novels and screenplays. Editors and film producers will often keep asking… — Rob Parnell Copy Share Image
“Is this a case of “Do as I say, not as I do?” The reader has a perfect right to ask the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are people who assume that Christianity is about the afterlife and that our chief problem in this life is that we… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
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Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
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