“A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Yeah, I used to write short stories at first, but once you work on something, you want to show people. My peers… — Giveon Copy Share Image
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I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down -… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to.… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's… — Robert Lipsyte Copy Share Image
I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
“I turn back to the page to obsessively invent still more damaged and heroic versions of myself before the fire dies out… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
“Where do you get your ideas?' people are always asking authors they admire, which I’ve always thought was another way of asking,… — Suzanne Berne Copy Share Image
Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
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Not working in journalism enables full attention to writing projects, which is good. But I miss the benefits of daily contact with… — Linden MacIntyre Copy Share Image
If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which… — Jon Franklin Copy Share Image
It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I… — Louise Jameson Copy Share Image
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
I love making miniatures, painting, writing, music and dance. These are the things I'm naturally good at. I'd like to think of… — Richa Chadha Copy Share Image
You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
What I believe is what I show, if I'm going to write a song about girls I don't want to do it… — Stan Walker Copy Share Image
Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Any good, persistent, business-minded, prolific writer can succeed if they keep writing and moving forward. For the modern author, that’s excellent news.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it… — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I actually didn't do any writing of music while I was locked up. I wrote a book, but I didn't do any… — Da Brat Copy Share Image
A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to… — James Bernard Frost Copy Share Image
I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
