Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“I’ve never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that’s enough. I must now make plans for… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Monks and writers lead very similar lives. We spend our best time in retreat from the world, anxious to make something of… — Rougeau a Benedictine Monk Copy Share Image
I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record.… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
Email is a mind-killer. Like, I really think getting a smartphone is the worst move I ever did in being a musician… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Food becomes very secondary when you're trying to write songs, funnily enough. I think a good snack and a good tea break… — Griff Copy Share Image
I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last. — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
“The image is an example of how horror writers view our world. A view that is far from the norm. Their writing… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I like to write for actors I know and with whom I've worked before. You can write to their strengths and weaknesses… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“I have so many people in my head, I can't keep up with the real people around me. But it's okay, I'm… — Shannon Taylor Vannatter Copy Share Image
Dn't compare with your love story with that of a movie because they are written by script writers...Your love story is written… — Shubham Joshi Copy Share Image
I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I write non-fiction quicker, and I write it on a computer. Fiction I write longhand, and that helps make it clear that… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping… — Monika Pardon Copy Share Image
That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women…why should it be considered a compliment to… — Elizabeth Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
“and what appears to be every graphic memoir ever written – Jeffrey Brown, Craig Thompson, Alison Bechdel, James Kochalka, Lucy Knisley, and… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review.… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves. — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
