“Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible” — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“What I want my father's writing to keep teaching us is that at the table of writing, everyone is welcome. No voice… — Kim Stafford Copy Share Image
What we shall be is written, and we are so. Headless of God or Evil,Pen, wrote on! By the first day all… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
We played more rock music when we were writing the script. 'Renegade'. All of the Styx songs. All of the old '70's… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play. But during… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. One small step and… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
I have some advantages of viewing from the two lenses, the two perspectives. I think that a lot of visual artists who… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I make no secret of the fact that writing She-Hulk can serve as an opportunity for me to sneak in some really… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
“Every story is entitled to have a ‘happily ever after’ ending. However, not all characters are so deserving.” — Chad B Hanson Copy Share Image
The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for… — Marcel Achard Copy Share Image
Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what… — Lesli Linka Glatter Copy Share Image
A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If… — Conor Maynard Copy Share Image
You have Cameron Crowe write an incredible monologue for you just based on the things that you're talking about. It just became… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word? — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“I thought you were going to CALL me? I call this texting ;-) The reply came back within seconds: I find it… — Karen Mahoney Copy Share Image
You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again.… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint. — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab… — William Sadler Copy Share Image
