I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Details are where a theory can be held together or fall apart. The same is true about a plot.” — Sarah Richards Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Those who can't, and can't teach, translate. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)” — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life? — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with. — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
I really started writing at the Groundlings. We all have to write all our own sketches and stuff. — Edi Patterson Copy Share Image
If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“There'll always be a market for shit, of course. Just look at Jeffrey Archer! He writes like old people fuck doesn't he?” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm dealing with so much business, and my mind will be so stressed, that I'll go a week without writing... But… — Lil B Copy Share Image
“A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“writing a story is dangerous more dangerous then anyone can know. Its planting small seeds of ideas into peoples minds. Some can… — Natalie Stein Copy Share Image
There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
