Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. — John Doerr Copy Share Image
The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
You filled the void they been missing or help fit where they belong. Helped 'em up when the hope was gone,lent a… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
It's all in the writing. The writing has got to be there. Whether that's dialogue or character, or whatever, it doesn't matter.… — Wes Bentley Copy Share Image
When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick,… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seems careless of having anything… — John Clare Copy Share Image
What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Dear Mr. Snicket, I would like to be a writer when I grow up, but my dad wants me to be a… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I’m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. I’ve seen a chunk… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
That’s why you have to write your book right now, if that’s what you want to do. If you wait until you… — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying,… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
When I set out to write, I see it very visually. I almost feel like a reporter. I'm relating what I'm seeing… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write...He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Wonderful suimbt, very informative. I wonder why the opposite specialists of this sector do not understand this. You must proceed your writing.… — Rita Copy Share Image
The first challenge that every writer or creator of material faces is getting through the crowd so that the person you're trying… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep. — Kat Duff Copy Share Image
I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
