The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside,… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“And one gathers from this enormous modern literature of confes- 11 sion and self- analysis that to write a work of genius… — Lee A. Jacobus Copy Share Image
I tell the songwriter's story. When I read people's lyrics, I'm so amazed. I want to tell this story and make it… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I always think about the books I'm doing in pretty much the same way. I'm simply trying to write that particular novel… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there's a heavier responsibility that goes along with a… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves… — David Farland Copy Share Image
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way that… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
“This “I” was the voice of no author in my house. This “I” was someone who not only knew why Charlotte went… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I don't think there's any deep psychological reason. It isn't comparable, say, to America's involvement with Vietnam and the emotional scars that… — Valerie Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary… — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
“We have no time to waste on insignificant books, hollow books, books that are there to please... We want books that cost… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm… — Aja Naomi King Copy Share Image
People always want to give you advice about parenting. People who you've never met before will tell you you're doing something wrong.… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
When you write about people three dimensionally, it inspires a sense of empathy. That would be something that I want people to… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Stories are truth. Through writing, you can say so much more than in speaking. Writing is not fantasizing, writing is telling the… — Theprinceoftworealities Copy Share Image
“I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious. Actual formal considerations… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Mark Twain said (particularly about Pink Marsh): "I have been reading him again, and my admiration overflows all limits. ... How effortless… — George Ade Copy Share Image
Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of… — B. J. Porter Copy Share Image
I've just come back from Vegas, and I was in on the caucus process. It's insane. What a mess. And also with… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“I had another reason for seeking Him, for trying to espy His face, a professional one. God and literature are conflated in… — Paul Quarrington Copy Share Image
G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“Stories are masks of God. That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade,… — Melanie Tem Copy Share Image
I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language.… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
