Advantage Quote by Art Buchwald

Anytime I talk about my wife, I want to make it, like, 'the battle-ax,' and I always do that bit, but it's not true.…

— Matthew Broderick

My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside…

— Flannery O'Connor

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

— Iris Murdoch

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

— Paulo Coelho

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

— William J. Clinton

Literary devices are used in everything you do, but more importantly in what you say.

— Mariam Eldoma

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

— Stephen King

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

— Edwidge Danticat

First of all, my wife writes half my act. I don't know how I could "steal" from my wife.

— Jay Mohr

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

— Lauren Mayberry

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the…

— Aimee Bender