“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Memory, or rather experience -- which is the memory of the event plus the wound it has inflicted on you, plus the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It's not often I get to do a film that turns out good. Plus, there just aren't that many great directors out… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Who are you without your girls? I truly believe that. Who are you without the people who help you make sense of… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
So many want to be lifted by song and dancing, and this morning it is easy to understand. I write in the… — Linda Gregg Copy Share Image
“Life scars the writer but he is not without weapons of vengeance. The art of fiction is a prism that he can… — Kerima Polotan Copy Share Image
As a format, I have watched shows from the West. I have tried to understand what it is and how this format… — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
Read your work out loud. Don't give me that look. Read your work aloud. Don't argue. Don't fight. It will help. I… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something… — Ander Monson Copy Share Image
“...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity.… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I think that I have grown a lot as an artist. I have been writing about my experiences of love and overcoming… — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In my general meetings, I certainly tell producers and executives that I'm interested in writing action films, but I think there's still… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
“Prophetic preaching and writing certainly does not follow the patterns of Aristotelian rectilinear logic so fundamental to our discourse in the Western… — Peter J. Gentry Stephen J Wellum Copy Share Image
“I had so much fun writing this book. I could hardly wait for morning to come so I could get back to… — Gladys L. Hargis Copy Share Image
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I'm from Ohio, and I wasn't one of those kids who grew up making movies or whatever, but I always wanted to… — David Leslie Johnson Copy Share Image
I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“Today is your wright-time. Anything worth writing will be, or has been written already. A great story chooses its writer lest no… — Amah Lambert Copy Share Image
I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live… — Geoff Zanelli Copy Share Image
I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 29, "Write In a Book What You See") "heuristic writing - writing to explore and discover what I didn't know.… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I think I write honestly about what goes on in a guy’s mind, and girls are interested in that. As a sex,… — Gary Lightbody Copy Share Image
The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to… — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and recording, but I am very inspired by so many… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
I sing and Ron doesn't want to be the singer of the band, he's the keyboard player and predominant writer of the… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
“Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
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