“So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist. — Donald O. Hebb Copy Share Image
When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story...… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Passion is so contagious. When you're working on a project where people care, on every level, from the key grips to the… — Seth Gabel Copy Share Image
The way I felt growing up, which was like an outcast - I was weird, I was a nerd, I read fantasy… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold… — Emily Rodda Copy Share Image
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Be a complex person. The more ways you define yourself, the less vulnerable you are to setbacks in any area. If you’re… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who… — Charles King Copy Share Image
It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be:… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
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I'm so grateful to be living doing what I love. Whether it's acting in Films or TV shows or writing and directing… — Kyle Cassie Copy Share Image
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I don't get writer's block. I don't try to write anything; when something comes, I write it. I just practice and when… — Jose James Copy Share Image
Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called… — Annette O'Toole Copy Share Image
Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it. — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
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If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's… — Halsey Copy Share Image
“Without trying, I seem to write about these poor boys who are absolutely mad for girls who are otherwise engaged in perilous… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
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