With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
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So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having. — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
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I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
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“Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I… — Alejandro Escovedo Copy Share Image
When you got source material, whether it's a play or a book - a great writer often appreciates being adapted and developed.… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I often note that my accent is a result of reading, writing, and speaking in three languages, something that immigrants across our… — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something,… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
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The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to… — Leigh Steinberg Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
It's great to be able to write songs and draw on life, to write truthfully, and to be able to do that,… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
My wife gets mad because we'll be in the middle of something and I'll stop and say, 'No, I've got to write… — Henry Cho Copy Share Image
If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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My approach to writing and recording now is pretty much the same as when I started. Except now I worry even less… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon...… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I know how to write stories that are accessible to younger readers, and sophisticated enough for older ones. I'm not a big… — Hope Larson Copy Share Image
“People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the job of the… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
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