“Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying.” — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Just remember one thing Angela and then I promise I’ll shut up.’ ‘Can I get that in writing?’ ‘You” — Carol Mason Copy Share Image
I really disliked Philadelphia society - really, deeply disliked it. I spent a lot of my teenage years writing poetry attacking it. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“I want to be known as a good wife, mother and writer; but most of all, I desire to be known as… — Alisa Hope Wagner Copy Share Image
I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their… — Vince Neil Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to… — James Agee Copy Share Image
No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
What had the board been doing when they see these things happening. I mean, you can write a law that says you… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“While I was starting out I had no idea on how the world of writing and publishing worked. I had no mentor,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I've always been of that mindset - when you're writing tunes with people, there's a traditional way of chopping things up, and… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
Micro humor is a joke that's contained in the writing: it's a punch line, it's a turn of phrase, it's something that… — Susanna Fogel Copy Share Image
I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it.… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the… — Shomprakash Sinha Roy Copy Share Image
I'd love to be able to write an in-depth piece of what causes men like [Richard] Nixon and [H.R.]Haldeman and [John] Ehrlichman… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the characters, and I know… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
“You have seven writers in your basement?” Donald nods, signing, “They like it here. There’s a poet, a couple of novelists, an… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Declan Kiberd: Irish writers were an early warning system about abuse Artists played a vital role in the State's formation and since… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
“I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash;… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“She carried a notebook with her everywhere and brimmed with ideas. She often woke in the night and switched on the light… — Josephine Moon Copy Share Image
“There is something soothing about the act of writing, a drug that lures you into another world, but then forgets to stop,… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
What I tend to do is I try and get as much writing done... I get as much writing done at home… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important. — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
“[T]he reason why Shakespeare and Pushkin were great writers was because from the time when they were boys they stood like policemen… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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