“The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life.… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall… — Elijah Parish Lovejoy Copy Share Image
Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The words came fast and slow, because the act of writing plunged me so wantonly down slippery avenues of thought that frequently… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
I want studios that make story-based games to start taking their stories more seriously. And that doesn't mean hiring a big shot… — Neil Druckmann Copy Share Image
“You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott… — Nava Atlas Copy Share Image
In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there's a point where you let it… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only… — Teri Garr Copy Share Image
Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“My object in writing the following pages, was not simply to amuse the Reader, neither was it to gratify my own taste,… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum.… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Ancient writing was intended to do things, to make people act or believe or change their behavior, not just to entertain them… — Mary Ann Tolbert Copy Share Image
When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
When I do jokes that maybe are seen as social commentary, I research them to the nth degree. I probably do more… — Ralphie May Copy Share Image
I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“Writing derives from an accumulation of experience. It's as if you collect facts and observations over time, like a stone to stand… — Harriet Doerr Copy Share Image
I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
“Every time I hear writers talk about ‘the muse,’ I just want to bitch-slap them. It’s a job. Do your job.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
“I don't think there is any point in continuing writing. Since I have neither killed nor been killed, there's nothing further to… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“When you break a writer’s heart, you fracture the universe of their imagination, leaving constellations of shattered dreams.” — Dr. Nitin Chopra Copy Share Image
“Why does everyone want to be a writer? It is because every person wants to feel that they have something of value… — Margie B. Klein Copy Share Image
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“When you're writing historical fiction, you are always looking for the untold story. You're looking for what has been repressed politically, or… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is -… — Anne-Marie Copy Share Image
The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
