“Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff. — T. J. Miller Copy Share Image
I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland. — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing,… — Andrew Taylor Copy Share Image
I can write any kind of novel I want, any time, and sell it, but there's not that many people watching it.… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately… — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I try to… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“In Judaism praying for benefits is a very small part of the liturgy. Most of it is commitment of one's fortunes to… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“I’ve heard rumors that writing can feel glamorous. But only glamorous, I’d guess, in the way a stretch limo might feel glamorous.… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“How…will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I'm a good essay writer, I know how to write. I was just good at it. — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
