I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read. — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you. — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
If you are careful about the content and writing style, readers will not feel that you are in a hurry. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national… — Meg Tilly Copy Share Image
Writing a sitcom compared with writing a novel is a bit like the difference between going on a big, noisy group holiday… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers,… — Eva Marie Saint Copy Share Image
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Shaw...has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her?" "Good God, no," Gideon replied with a snicker. "Shaws don't… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I like to leave things open, and even when I write out the story ahead of time, it always changes. I don't… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
“Inspiration do not come and cannot be found, it has to exist - somewhere, somehow. Do believe that what you are doing… — Liv-Christine Hoem Copy Share Image
“The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Protestantism, of course, is much more explicitly divided into different traditions - the Pentecostals, the Anglicans. But there is the main tradition… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Early in my career as a domme, I both admired and feared becoming one of those career dommes. I saw, in myself,… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Unless you loosen the hold that your past has on you, your future will unfold in much the same way . .… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Pretty much all comic-book people, like all Hollywood people, for the most part, are pretty liberal. I think especially UK writers. Alan… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I should… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Writing down your trades is the best exercise in the world. — Linda Bradford Raschke Copy Share Image
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
“The real education never ends. It is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write. — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
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