A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Expect to be disgusted by your own early work. If writing is your vocation, if you hope that it might be your… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Apparently, I have approached every role that I've had as if I was the lead of the show, and had a voice… — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous. — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
Writers are those weird people that can break through misunderstandings and deliver stories that speak to many. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“You may initially find yourself at a point of re-convincing that there could be a positive twist, and that's okay. Suspense naturally… — Chinonye J. Chidolue Copy Share Image
“I don’t shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“It's great to be anywhere as a writer. It saves you from implication in the ugliness of the place and justifies your… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes… — Connie Britton Copy Share Image
In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
One thing that I believe is that every time I write something, I am taking the time to celebrate. Even if I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
“Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike… — Steven Lake Copy Share Image
“No.' It's not a bad word. And it is very important to use at times. Practice saying it in the mirror. It's… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
