When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“What are you burning?" On a glance, just some papers. "I write in a journal." He spoke below his breath, so that… — Adele Griffin Copy Share Image
In fiction the narrator is a performance of voice, and it can be any style of voice, but I'm interested in the… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well… — Otis Redding Copy Share Image
“Failing to be American (The Sonnet) I've tried to rekindle the American sentiment of my early days of writing, but in vain.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if… — Bonnie Baker Copy Share Image
In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
No strict schedule, but I write nearly daily in my journal. Sometimes I go back and pull out things to give to… — Marie Bradby Copy Share Image
I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
“The boy was in the Hitler Youth, he says, and he was reading a book one day, he was really enjoying it,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Reading ought to mean understanding; writing ought to mean knowing something; believing ought to mean comprehending; when you desire a thing, you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I have this dream again and again: I find extra rooms in the place where I live. You could say it's a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When I listen to little fourth-dimension artifacts, they're like they were made as time capsules in the first place. You know that… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“It is a very strange feeling when one is loving a clock that is to every one of your class of living… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“I'm a features writer, and an Indian at that, so I get all the shit jobs. Not the dangerous shit jobs or… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I'm here to get the story on to the page. It would be good to catch your attention, and I have to… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“Shiloh, but it sorely disappointed the Century editors. Written in Grant’s pithy style, it was arid and compact and read like a… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
What was toughest for me in writing "Trust," was reliving it, turning and facing this. We move on and we don't move… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
When I was doing it, I just thought, 'I'm going to do this because it's fun.' I wasn't writing for a publisher… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
I don't really analyze my stuff when I write. I write about stuff that I'm interested in, that I'm feeling at that… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
“ THE JOB SEARCH To be successful in the working world, you must steel yourself against rejection, whether you are a salesman,… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wish my childhood had been less obsessed with the question of why we are here. But that must be the… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
Well 'The Pod F. Tompkast,' as much as I love the result of it, was a really labor intensive show. There's a… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
If there's one regret I have of my time in comedy it's that I really I was so obsessed with improv for… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way… — Kevin Canty Copy Share Image
Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character.… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I'm not a Mexican writer, but I think everything that happens in Mexico affects the Mexican writers I know, in their sense… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
