I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.” — Mark Leidner Copy Share Image
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
“Writing takes place in an open playing field with limitless possibilities, most of them terrible.” — Scott Gates Copy Share Image
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes. — Gerrit Noordzij Copy Share Image
I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone… — Tommy Bolin Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“The writer’s special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.” — Kay Kenyon Copy Share Image
A writers' ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other's work on their own websites… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one… — Esther Earl Copy Share Image
Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
As an actor what you're always looking for is a character that is going to grow and change especially on television. I… — Jennifer Morrison Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
“Anyone could tell us two writers shouldn’t be together. Or rather, that a competitive American shouldn’t be with a woman who has… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
