Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick. — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“Joan thinks then that writers have infinite choices and mothers nearly no choice at all.” — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
There's certainly enough writers and directors and actors who secretly aspire to make movies and films that agree with the center-right perspective,… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about,… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I've been a musician and a songwriter for years, since I was a teenager, and made my living doing that on and… — Rachel Parris Copy Share Image
“One bright October morning in the year 1828, a lone lorn woman by the name of GUMMIDGE might have been seen standing… — Various Copy Share Image
“In the American Grain" "Ninth grade, and bicycling the Jersey highways: I am a writer. I was half-wasp already, I changed my… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“The same skills needed for writing are needed or reading. Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Here’s what I say; Someone has to be a rock star; it might as well be you; Someone has to write books;… — Jamie Freveletti Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Writing about relationships is political. The personal is political. — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He traded in what he thought he had no control over for someone who he knew how to manipulate. — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful. — Moby Copy Share Image
“I write for teens (I am one!) and I hope to help them connect with the writings and enjoy reading.” — Cali Amber Copy Share Image
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately Im writing in pen and I cant erase my mistakes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
