...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My revision methods are chipping things away and moving them around and trying to get things right. I'm also open in my… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I do laugh when I hear myself saying, 'I am a ventriloquist.' I am definitely suited to it, though. I took it… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
Honestly, people can write anything they want about me and I could care less, but once you start writing stuff about my… — Patrick Reed Copy Share Image
As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then… — Banks Copy Share Image
I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“Writers aren’t the only ones who use the first kind of noble obstacle. I know some guys who say they can’t work… — Jon Acuff Copy Share Image
Basically, it's somebody who got stuck having to interview me who really wants to be a novelist, so they're writing these novellas… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“At first, writing actually felt the more arduous of the two activities. But in order to reach cultural-center nirvana, I forced myself… — Yu Hua Copy Share Image
“Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get… — Colin Nissan Copy Share Image
I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“The writer's craft, explained! I have stood on the shores of imagination, gazing at a sea of dreams. It is a lonely… — Barry Woodham Copy Share Image
When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the… — Lee Brice Copy Share Image
All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Writing, as most art, is considered to be essentially superfluous. Who is an artist before a surgeon? Or a scientist? But the… — Rainer J. Hanshe Copy Share Image
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Mythographer was suggested by the man who made my website, actually. I do write a lot about myth and I do feel… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist; also I couldn't spell… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
