“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.” — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
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When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first Chicken Soup for the Soul… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don't write - I recline on… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
I'm not an ad-libber. If I'm asked to ad-lib, I can ad-lib forever and it's really fun to do that, but I… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
“With McClure’s support, Steffens embarked on an odyssey. For the better part of three years, he called on people in St. Louis,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know,… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“One of my favourite things to do when I write is to bring a sense of wonder to a normal everyday setting...… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
What I’ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
“Even now, I am anxious about the naked thoughts that I have shared. The observations are blisteringly honest and of course they… — John Conrad Copy Share Image
I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap. — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
If anything this is one of the better ways to write together and not get stuck in the studio. Its a really… — Medeski Martin And Wood Copy Share Image
“Vision, emotion, sincerity, passion and creativity. Without these attributes a writer has only his pen with which to speak to his audience” — Bill Knight English Writer Copywriter Cynic Copy Share Image
You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way that I write is I just write a ton of music in the background of my life, and then I… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period. — Susan Holloway Scott Copy Share Image
I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the… — Edie Brickell Copy Share Image
“Writing is a simple but elusive art,” he said. “To write is to describe. Describe accurately and respectfully. And perhaps passionately.” — Josh Farrar Copy Share Image
Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
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