Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I think you can tell stories and give perspectives and yet still keep stuff for yourself, too. I keep a lot of… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream,… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Traditionally games never used professional writers to create their narrative, so there's definitely a residual feeling that hiring a proper writer is… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
In my youth, when I tried to plan for the future, I had wished to be an engineer so I could get… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
To journalists my move from comics to films to best-selling novels was resembling those little evolutionary maps too much, where you see… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“She grew weary and took the hand of another. I couldn't write a single word for days, but then, I let the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.” — P.S. Bartlett Copy Share Image
I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Most of the time it may seem like I'm staring into nothingness, but there's a whole world playing out in my head.” — Aneta Cruz Copy Share Image
Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I just happen to be from the generation that, like a lot of my older friends, started out writing letters. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
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I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I dont fully understand my wifes emotions - and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of… — Evan Goldberg Copy Share Image
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient,… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I felt that no self-help book had been written for millennials yet, so my ultimate goal was to write it. — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I really enjoy blocking and staging. I think most of visual storytelling is camera placement and how to stage action around the… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
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