Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong… — Thomas Powers Copy Share Image
I don't write political stuff. I'm sure I've made attempts, but I don't tend to write very topical things, either. I admire… — Kyle Mooney Copy Share Image
The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Do you believe that our stories were written from before that we are but actors performing on the stage called life with… — Chirag Tulsiani Copy Share Image
It's not so much less pressure, it's less work, which is really exciting to me. I'm just personally looking forward to being… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“...for example, if Freud is wrong, as i and many others believe, where does that leave any number of novels and virtually… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
“I'd been writing for as long as I could remember, but once I read Otherworld, I'd stopped writing original stories to focus… — Allison van Diepen Copy Share Image
It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I made the choice not to have children, so I can spend my days just writing; there are no kids demanding my… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then… — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love Roger Deakin's writing, and enjoyed making a programme about wild swimming for BBC4, inspired by his book about his own… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“Thus long did God forbear to commit his will to writing, because it, passing through so few, and those trusty hands, it… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Make sure to answer these (3) empowering questions everyday (preferably in writing): Q1-What am I grateful for? Q2-What am I proud of?… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
To hone my voice, I read everything, from books to cereal boxes, three times: once for fun, the second time to learn… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women's friendships over time. But that… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Besides Sumerian cuneiform, the other certain instance of independent origins of writing in human history comes from Native American societies of Mesoamerica,… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Livet består av en del galskap, og en del visdom; den som bare skriver ærbødig og konvensjonelt, utelater mer enn halvparten.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too. — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.” — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
