“Now lend me your ears. Here is Creative Writing 101: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way… — Kurt Vonnegut jr Copy Share Image
I don't think that my job requires me to be competitive at all. I'm in my office by myself, or I'm in… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
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Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Whenever I write about my family, I start by getting my parent's approval. I like to think I write about them with… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I'm still writing in my old age. And still loving it. It fills my days. Writing is my salvation. I just get… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
I think being an editor really helped me take other people's notes on my writing. I'd get a note like 'It's too… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
It's a fun movie Death Note. Despite the fact that it's about killing people, it's even comical. But, there is an underlying… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old...so my inspirations back then, I don't know -… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
“Someone recently asked me to write about men's problems in life. She said "I can see pain in a man's eyes! Why… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes,… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
“You’ve got to write every day as if you were clocking in for a job. Or if not every day, then damn… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you… — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
I try to write cinematically. Let me define what I mean by that. First of all, I try to write in a… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then,… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
Writing about someone well known removes that obligation of defending it as a subject, but it also means that some of the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I always feel like I have got so much to write about, when it comes to writing for the album. I still… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
Movie is an industry without job security. As soon as a job is done, you have to find a job. But I… — T. J. Miller Copy Share Image
Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
Why are non-disabled people writing about disability without consultation? When that happens, the end result... you might get it right once, but… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
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I think I'm succinct to the point of trying to write the two-word novel. Editing my work almost never means taking anything… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The love story between the hero and the heroine has to be at the center of the book. I think that's pretty… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
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I don't think we need a critic to negotiate with the audience. People say, "Who are you writing for?" I'm writing for… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Certainly, I had a wonderful push from my publisher and got very lucky. I'm very aware of what it means to have… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
I am not a performing seal. In your writing, you are tapping into the part that is 'the best' in you. But… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up in the '80s, the BBC showed those old Buster Crabbe serials like Flash Gordon and… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
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