I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist,… — Plato Copy Share Image
In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
That awkward moment When you are busy writing a rather long but important article and you start approaching the word limit of… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“It's true that some commenters and email correspondents challenge writers to examine certain posts, but for the most part, blog readers are… — Audacia Ray Copy Share Image
Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis'… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
It gives me a great pleasure to see my reader's reaction to whatever I write.. I can be a great writer... My… — Aireen Pontillo Copy Share Image
I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Let Her Go,' it's not like I was doing anything different. I was just writing a song as I… — Passenger Copy Share Image
One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
“But you're sleep, and you're a few miles away, and I have no means to get to you right now, so I’m… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil. — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“You know what they say about writers: we can do it quietly, in many different positions, and all night long.” — Christopher D. Votey Copy Share Image
The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure. — Tim Kring Copy Share Image
Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and… — Karl Hyde Copy Share Image
It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way,… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I never had any other thought in my mind. I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a… — Kim Carnes Copy Share Image
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