Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The thing about doing mashups and covers is it's great, but a part of you never gets to really showcase what your… — Vidya Vox Copy Share Image
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of "Remember to never split an infinitive" and "The… — William Safire Copy Share Image
“When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied,… — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
You wake up, your life is discipline: there's kids, breakfast, lunch box, go to work, discipline, organization, guests. Imagine the semi-final of… — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
I had a teacher once who said, "If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry." I have always… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
TV is the place for writers to live. This is where you have creative control and you're constantly writing. 'Twilight' had almost… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could… — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife… — Ismail Merchant Copy Share Image
These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I just like a great song. I just wanted to be this true reflection of what is in my heart and it… — The Rocket Summer Copy Share Image
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.” — John Osborne Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to… — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out… — Richard B. Knight Copy Share Image
There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them. — Bono Copy Share Image
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds'… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“Book reviewer: Very often a writer who has never been published taking out their frustrations on a writer who has.” — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
