My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true. — William Golding Copy Share Image
The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life kicks you in the teeth with an irony that a self-respecting fiction writer would be ashamed to invent.” — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.” — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I think I am a creative person, but I'm slightly more kind of visionary...I prefer to guide writers, than to claim to… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of… — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
“In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?" Laughter. A murmur of approval. The writer hesitated a few… — José Eduardo Agualusa Copy Share Image
“A Gift for You I send you... A cottage retreat on a hill in Ireland. This cottage is filled with fresh flowers,… — Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK Copy Share Image
In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question?… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words. — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a… — Melissa Peterman Copy Share Image
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
I have this TV pilot I was writing for and a couple of films. It's just a different way to express myself. — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I was living in Argentina in Buenos Aires and I was working as a journalist, but I was earning so little money… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born… — Mac Davis Copy Share Image
Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I think then I write, give my thoughts a light, begin pondering about life. Break it down then roll up the lyrics,… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
