Books Quote by Alice Mattison

For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about…

— Thomas Huxley

If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to…

— Craig Mazin

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

— Tory Lanez

If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person you are…

— Lady Colin Campbell

“For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”

— Eudora Welty

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went…

— Khaled Hosseini

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach…

— Shelby Foote

Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how…

— Stanley Fish

My first interest in graffitti came when I was in grammar school, around '87 or '88 I was about twelve years old. I did…

— KAWS

You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat

— Frederic Chopin

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course…

— Jay McInerney

What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

— Kay Ryan