If I write a book, it has to be so awesome. It has to be next level, to prove mysel. Just like… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't… — Tila Tequila Copy Share Image
My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since… — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Things have changed in Latin America now. We mostly have democratic governments in Latin America, so the position of the writer has… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“You’re saying we can write our own destiny,” I said, feeling too jaded and stubborn in the moment to believe it. “I… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“between 321 and 300 B.C., recommended that ambassadors use cryptanalysis to obtain intelligence: “If there is no possibility of carrying on any… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm… — Flo Rida Copy Share Image
Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it -… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I can assure you, as anyone who has ever met a muse knows, the best way to get a muse to hang… — Z.A. Maxfield Copy Share Image
To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Writing is hard, but I don’t want to kill myself trying to write. Not unless I’m writing a suicide note.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
“Anna is the sort of woman who writers write about, Tom. Somewhere in the third act, women like her save characters like… — Matthew Norman Copy Share Image
When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“On the two-way street of communication, a happy symbiosis is achieved when a writer tosses up an offbeat usage or a puzzling… — William Safire Copy Share Image
In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Lyrically, you know, most of the things on 'Rumours' were very autobiographical and very much conversations the three writers were having with… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a tune with someone I'm making sure it's what they wanna say and it's articulating what they have to… — MNEK Copy Share Image
An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little… — Hudson Stuck Copy Share Image
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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