When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“It is for this reason that Aristotle recommends that the writer begin "in the middle of things" and fill in the exposition… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. We ain't pretty, but we're on the road. Many of us… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.… — N.H. Kleinbaum Copy Share Image
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“When I was in high school, all my friends said they were going to be writers. And I thought, How come you… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Writing a love song for a girl is no good...but writing one for a Woman...Now that is something different. — Jasari Copy Share Image
“... except when I get down and write...then I let my imagination go to places I never knew existed and my characters… — Mark Alders Copy Share Image
To write a song is one thing, to get it to No.1 is another and to have a respected artist cover it… — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
Having a writer in the family is a curse - for the family. I do feel more or less guilty when I'm… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life:… — Lawrence Weschler Copy Share Image
I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I love writing romance, along with science fiction and fantasy - and my books usually meld all three to some degree. — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing… — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
I am just diving into life again. I just have nothing new to offer right now as an idea for a book.… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job! — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean.… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking.” — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“You keep your followers confused when you begin very well and give up too early... Suspense is useful in movies, but useless… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to… — Valerie Worth Copy Share Image
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content. — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
