The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it. — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that. — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
Of course, life experience changes and adds to writing. And observations change too, where you put yourself in relation to other people. — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
I suppose ever since I was about 14, I remember listening to "Sgt. Pepper's," and I remember thinking, "how do you possibly… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
“Anyone could tell us two writers shouldn’t be together. Or rather, that a competitive American shouldn’t be with a woman who has… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
As an actor what you're always looking for is a character that is going to grow and change especially on television. I… — Jennifer Morrison Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing songwriters and recording artists, and so… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Hugely enjoyable and insightfulGosling has produced the perfect combination of rigorous research and lightness of prose to create a book that will… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do… — Angela Yee Copy Share Image
Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories. — Lennie James Copy Share Image
I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
With the Internet, there are so many ways to connect with other writers who will be some of your best friends and… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book,… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“An exceptional book to read on! The author has a writing style and cared! I do not tell you more click on… — Le Douarec Philippe Copy Share Image
As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I like to get produced. I'm not saying I write to be commercial, I mean "Hazelwood High" they light a girl on… — Rob Urbinati Copy Share Image
The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
