Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision; a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The disparity between the haves and have-nots was always blatantly obvious to me, and it's that exact gap that drove me to… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Even in those early years of Static-X, there was a pattern emerging where I would spend all my free time writing songs… — Wayne Static Copy Share Image
“His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
“You can’t apply academic rules to art of any kind. As soon as you begin to have rules, you begin to say,… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
“With a writer's eye, Irving detected Jackson's depths. "As his admirers say, he is truly an old Roman-to which I would add,… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood.… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“The simple answer is that I have changed my techniques in order to avoid the relentless sameness of my material, but I… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page.… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to… — Chris Rose Copy Share Image
Music is the highest art form.I still think that. I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it.' If… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
I binge-watched this show Damages. Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I decided to write a crime novel. That genre was at the height of its popularity in Poland, so I thought it… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“There is this quality esteemed within every good writer. She knows…she knows that truth must be un-sheltered within every human transition phase… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
“I first got into writing because I got involved in the production of a magazine for army wives. They were short of… — Catherine Jones Copy Share Image
I'm inspired as a writer by any place where I've lived for a significant amount of time that have memories, my past,… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting 'Heureka!', plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
I think it's significantly easier to be a female writer today than in the early 1800's. That said, it's hard to imagine… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
It's rare that I'm not at work on some sort of craft project. I've often enthused about the need to make things;… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
No one is making extraordinary things alone. They might be alone in their bedroom while they're recording or writing, but they didn't… — Kelela Copy Share Image
Tegus, I'm leaving this book behind for you, so you will know the why of it all, and maybe you'll forgive me,… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Acting is a general thing; it's not like being a primary artist like a painter or writer which stands the test of… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
