Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me.… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
Maybe someday there will be a song I write that I never let see the light of day because I don't want… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
There is a political process which we are trying to achieve through what is called the Vienna Group. That involves the establishment… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go,… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
The situation is not good with the record companies. It's just not working out, so I don't plan to record until it's… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
I really want to write a novel. A few years ago I went so far as to do the cliché thing and… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“How many words grace the pages of this book! They are supposed to bestir memory. As if words could remember! For words… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
See, even if you're stuck in life, if you can describe just exactly the way you're stuck, then you will immediately recognise… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“One page a day, seven a week, thirty or thirty-one to the month. Fishing in his pocket for a tip, he came… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Why do people think that it's appropriate to talk to me about my body? Why do men think it's appropriate to literally… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
“Being poor is neither history nor permanent but a status. Writers who begin with this sentence “X is a poorest country in… — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
I'm speaking to someone I'm trying to get to fall in love with me. I'm trying to speak intimately to one person.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Writers live with fear. Some writers cannot deal with the fear, and so they quit or refuse to publish. In order to… — Patrick Mcmanus Copy Share Image
“They should also write every day. They shouldn’t wait for inspiration. Carpenters don’t need inspiration to make a table. It’s their profession.… — Darrell Pitt Copy Share Image
The impulse to write the poem, that impulse is a great dramatic impulse. But hell, anybody could write a play. I do… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Some of my good friends who were writers disappeared. Others are still inside Syria and there are others who are refugees. I'm… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up… — Jay Watson Copy Share Image
“See this? I wrote this piece two years ago, after my parents died. I was angry. I was hurt. I wrote down… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
When people ask that question, it's very hard to nail down a formula or a circumstance that I always write in, but… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
“People often think of storytelling as a performative act of persuading others, conveying messages, and selling ideas. But we must recognize that… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
“Jake always liked his books and stories. And writing in his diaries. It was a comfort for him. He could work through… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other.… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
“You know, I think some people fear that if they like the wrong kind of book, it will reflect poorly on them.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each book is a new book. I’ve never written it before and I have to teach myself how to write it as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context,… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book.… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image