I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
You've got to give people an opportunity. But I also think that a lot of black writers don't know how to submit… — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break… — Chazz Palminteri Copy Share Image
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
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I ain't a lover, but I want to love all your crazy imperfections, I ain't a diver, but I want to dive… — Hareem Ch Copy Share Image
Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I never went to school for writing, never took a writing class, but when you're in a room with David Simon and… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
“Someone misdirected you [...] Most writers in New York don't do much writing. They spend their time talking and drinking bootleg liquor.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day… — Leonard Wolf Copy Share Image
“He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.'… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them… — Boy George Copy Share Image
I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides. — Pamela Frankau Copy Share Image
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I don't know who to write to anymore... They've changed their souls, that's a way to be disloyal, to forget, to keep… — Céline Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix. — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all… — Nathan Bransford Copy Share Image
“The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to… — Elise Valmorbida Copy Share Image
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
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