“... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
I felt like writing about a time when I was probably, and I think all of us are, the happiest in our… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Why is so impossible to describe a book in a few words?” “That is one of the mysteries of writing. Legend has… — Chelsea M. Cameron Copy Share Image
The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
At the age of 10 I started writing to the BBC about getting into broadcasting. It went on for years. I was… — Phillip Schofield Copy Share Image
The whole idea is that the combination of tight activity and slack activity allows me to be both productive and creative at… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
“as he reads the articles he talks about the writers, most of whom he knows from his days as a fighter, and… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs. — Gucci Mane Copy Share Image
There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I think it wasn't until I came out that I was like, 'OK, I'm ready to share my music now' because a… — G Flip Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative? — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
My knowledge of the universe is that if I write stupid jokes, the universe gives me a really nice house and great… — Joel Klein Copy Share Image
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Some of the stuff that I write really concerns me. If I'm not institutionalised by 30 I'll seriously question the judgement of… — Jack Tate Copy Share Image
Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I do think you learn things about genre storytelling, but you also have to be careful not to learn too much. — David Eick Copy Share Image
“Writers are made--forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities--over the course of many, many moons. The writer you… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about. — Jack Kent Cooke Copy Share Image
I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
