When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
“...music does not mean anything at all. You cannot ask it to speak to you in such concrete terms. It can evoke,… — Imogen Robertson Copy Share Image
Writers tend to hate recurring characters; there's this writer snob thing about it. But I don't have that. I feel like the… — Ana Gasteyer Copy Share Image
“Elliott was disarmingly bright, according to everyone who knew him, an avid reader of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Stendhal, Freud, the Buddha, all… — William Todd Schultz Copy Share Image
In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
The current state of music journalism is not bad, but it's not great at all. Some of the hip-hop stuff people get… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat.… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
I remember the few times that happened to me in writing, where you basically start writing and you look at the clock… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
“For some, vampires are still firmly in the 'evil, scary' column. However, in recent decades, vampires also run the gamut from evil… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Your hands learn to do things that you could spend a whole day trying to write about and articulate. There's a discomfort… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't… — David Morse Copy Share Image
We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In a 1699 book titled Les Aventures de Telemaque, French writer François Fénelon expanded on the relationship between Mentor and Telemachus, recounting… — Tammy Heflebower Copy Share Image
“We writers aren't sculpting in DNA, or even clay or mud, but words, sentences, paragraphs, syntax, voice; materials issued by tongue or… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“I've come to suspect that whenever any ability is difficult to learn and rarely performed well, it's probably because contraries are called… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
There's never a mistake in the universe. So if your partner is angry, good. If there are things about him that you… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The space where writing happens is a unique space that's hard to define, and when you're kicked out of it because you're… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful,… — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
I think that the biggest, quickest and hardest thing to learn for a writer is that what we think of as the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've been working on some original songs with the band that does the Led Zeppelin experience. We're going to start writing as… — Jason Bonham Copy Share Image
At some point, I stumbled across an article about OCD. As I read, I was blown away by how identical the writer's… — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
“So when we say that Christians work from a gospel worldview, it does not mean that they are constantly speaking about Christian… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“I should have been conceived during Woodstock; it’s in my blood: that burning desire to turn an absolute on its head and… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“I like to synthesize; I hate analysis. I don’t like to take a subject and break it down into parts; I like… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait,… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
