I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye… — John Green Copy Share Image
The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
Researching and writing about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 was one of the most exciting and involving projects I've undertaken. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they… — John Frankenheimer Copy Share Image
You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But… — John Prine Copy Share Image
“ My name is David, but most peole call me Popcorn. I write breathtaking adventures. I write the way most people think.… — Popcorn Diablo Copy Share Image
I don't want to tell what the songs are about for me, because then people can't decide for themselves, which is why… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“In the tapestry of a writer’s life, heartbreak is the thread that weaves the most intricate and haunting patterns.” ” — Dr. Nitin Chopra Copy Share Image
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
My favorite part about writing a song is really when it's released, and I can see that it relates to so many… — Ava Max Copy Share Image
For a while I never show anybody what I'm writing, and during that time I need the feeling that publishing is only… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“writing crystallizes thinking and distills meaning, and bridges the gap between the conscious and the unconscious.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God,… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like.… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white… — Ice T Copy Share Image
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“On writers' workshops: "It is the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
