I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien… — Carl Barks Copy Share Image
The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
I feel really uncomfortable writing about Sudan when I'm not there. It always looks different. When you're outside Sudan it's easy to… — Rebecca Hamilton Copy Share Image
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...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell. — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“I want to write more but I cannot. I am a little weary and the silence in my soul is black. I… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
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Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the… — John Banville Copy Share Image
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Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important… — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about. — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
If somebody writes something and it's true, you're not gonna be able to prevail and get damages, hear it. — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
So much Western storytelling comes from Scandinavia. I've read that in the past, storytellers would travel to Iceland and exchange stories. It's… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
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