I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula. — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory . — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“That is the kind of people they knew, Marguerite and her father—artists, writers, musicians.” She gave a dismissive sniff.” — Lillian Marek Copy Share Image
Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly -… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“He was one of those intrepid observers who write under fire, "reporting" among bullets, and to whom every danger is welcome.” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
One decision I made in writing 'Henry and Clara' was that I would keep Lincoln's appearances and any dialogue by him to… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good.… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
It's more like I write multiple first drafts, handwritten. So with my first novel, I wrote whole drafts from different points of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader.… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
I do these records. All of these ideas that I have, that I put out there, that inspire me to write, are… — El-P Copy Share Image
“The best thing about being a writer is the joy of creating a story that’s never been told before.” — Rae Copy Share Image
“I am more of a doer than a writer. I do not live to write. I write because I have lived.” — Thurman P. Banks Jr Copy Share Image
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies. — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“there is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel.” — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.” — YKRaikou Copy Share Image
I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
