It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness. — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.” — Patricia Fuller Copy Share Image
In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“You say you're a writer but you're depressed. Not an excuse; write from there. Write some depressing sh*t. Believe me. You will… — Stanley Christopher Copy Share Image
Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light… — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or… — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I believe the first story I ever wrote was about a young girl who was terribly mistreated by her very cruel parents,… — Victoria Laurie Copy Share Image
“Difficulty itself may be a path toward concentration — expended effort weaves us into a task, and successful engagement, however laborious, becomes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A completed book exists in its entirety, although we humans read it in a time sequence from the beginning to the end.… — Russell Stannard Copy Share Image
I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a… — Steve Antin Copy Share Image
If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - whats written and not… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I think writing a book about this experience would be trying to capitalize on it in some way and that's not something… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know.… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
Many times, the way I write my themes or melodies is that I hear it, and then I sing into my phone… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“I think we're actually talking about creative sleep. Like your bedroom, your writing room should be private, a place where you go… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar! — Megan Lee Copy Share Image
I've always loved writing, and my heritage has been interesting, growing up in a bi-cultural family. My mother being Vietnamese and my… — Mylene Dinh-Robic Copy Share Image
You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like… — Clive James Copy Share Image
A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
I feel that all girls like clothes and I'm more of a creative person. If it's writing the album or developing the… — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
