The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, too, you will then believe that nothing is more wonderful, nothing more fantastic than real life, and that all that a… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of. — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Simply put, meta-writing is writing that is self-conscious, self-reflective, and aware of itself as an artifice. The writer is aware she's writing,… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
Television is a completely different industry now. It's just extraordinary. It's so wonderful, because there's more interesting product. It attracts the best… — Jean Smart Copy Share Image
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you… — Elaine Orr Copy Share Image
“Personal essay writing is analogous to undertaking a vision quest, a potential turning point in life taken to discover intimate personal truths,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom… — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
“Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!” — Margarita Gakis Copy Share Image
I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, not an actor. I want to write rather than perform. I'm looking forward to disappearing for a while. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I've watched 'Ringu' probably three or four times before writing the first draft of 'The Ring.' And then I'd seen 'Ringu 2'… — Ehren Kruger Copy Share Image
I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Sophie does more of the writing, lyrical stuff; I do more of the sitting at the computer and the board stuff. But… — Tucker Halpern Copy Share Image
I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
It's nice to have the creative freedom to write about whatever and no longer feeling those restrictions I had when I was 15. — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“You know you’re getting somewhere as a writer when the rejection letters mean as much as spam in your inbox.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent. — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
“the act of writing will make you a better student, a better worker, a better friend, a better citizen, a better parent,… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
