I think the individual writers are out there punching away but the market is not there. The Top 40 as we knew it was a kind of open forum where people could come and sing their songs and that's not there any more.
Jimmy Webb
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Sir Winston Churchill
I needed to grow as an artist and a writer.
Warren Woodberry
[Although some IM attacks are becoming more innovative, most worms of this type are] kind of crude to date, ... but crude is working very effectively. Unfortunately, the one thing I've learned in this business is that [virus writers] will innovate.
Francis Costello
Our city and our world is so much more complicated. All of the writers in our series chose to address the negative parts of their lives, but they also wanted to show that you have people struggling to make beauty.
Abram Himelstein
I have a right to say these things without censorship. Isn't it the duty of an opinion writer to be provocative and stir debate?
Jillian Bandes
Obviously the publishers, because of historical curiosity or the significance of it, I think expected more, ... It obviously was not as much as some of my other books, but I don't know how much a writer can get involved in trying to second-guess that.
Bob Woodward
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
J.m. Synge
It's good training for a writer, ... entertaining people, telling them about your life, listening as they tell you about theirs.
Will Pearson
In a world where cultures and religions are recklessly facing off, Sholeh Wolpé writes careful poems that cast a light on some of what we all hold in common.
Billy Collins
One is improvising when one writes, and you pick up in the same way a musician starts to improvise and detect the inner structure of what he's playing - that's the way it works in the writing of a novel. You pick up the beat.
Robert Stone
The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.
John Scott
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
George Orwell
[Martin will create and executive the project with his production partner, Joan Stein.] What we and the writers are creating is a show that will explore the many facets of celebrity as a seductive, double-edged sword, ... We intend to deal with the big-life issues associated with big lives.
Joan Stein
A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
Gregory Nunn
See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.
Luther Vandross
The public adulation for Saturday was worrying because here was a 9/11 book that everyone was praising to the sky, making into a bestseller, and it was not a good book for McEwan, who is a very, very good writer. But maybe I shouldn't have been so pompous.
John Banville
The book that I'm writing - it's to do with my life as a musician and writer and the spiritual side of my life.
Dave Davies
The language of the pieces from this year is totally different than before. His earlier works stand in the shadow of Mozart and Beethoven, but with works like the 'Death and the Maiden' quartet, Schubert frees himself from Beethoven's influence and writes pieces that are original.
Corbin Johnston
When you think about when they booked these vacations, it was dumping. It kind of goes along with the snow year, and we're getting national attention. I was interviewed by a writer for the L.A. Times this week.
Riley Polumbus
[Marvin Olasky, a conservative Christian writer who has been a strong Bush supporter, explained his sympathy for Miers.] Maybe it's the judicial implications of her evangelical faith, unseen on the court in recent decades, ... Friends who know Miers well testify to her internal compass that includes a needle pointed toward Christ.
Marvin Olasky
I wanted to draw together into one place so many talented writers that we would achieve critical mass and explode upon Canadian society in a dazzling coruscation showering it with unquenchable brilliance.
John Metcalf
It's pretty much run on donations. We are still in need of grant writers and monetary gifts to help keep the programs going.
Amy Thaxton
[As nice as it is to imagine future Tony Award winners getting their start at NYMF,] the goal isn't to make it about the commercial future, ... One of our goals was to amplify the work that writers and musical theatre organizations are doing.
Robert Hurwitz
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost -the lost valleys of the imagination.
Alexander Cockburn
It doesn't mean, I think, so much that the workshop generates the writer as that writers are increasingly drawn to them as a kind of apprenticeship period, a place where they can spend a couple of years improving their skills.
Michael Curtis
As the flow of subliterary "news items" and anecdotes increases, the writer's work withers and stales until, in grim transference, his life becomes his oeuvre and he his only character.
Brian Moore
Composing is as important to me as playing. My feeling is that playing and composing support and nourish each other. I'd be a lesser player if I didn't write, and a lesser writer if I didn't play. Composing is tremendously difficult and painful for me, and I often go to great lengths to avoid it.
Steve Swallow
I was surprised at how vastly different these ideas were from my ideas. I became aware that school boards are thwarted by the guidelines we are given. If you just follow the books, you might be doing a good job in the eyes of the writer, but not in the eyes of the voters who elected you.
Suanne Sines
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.
Patrick Kavanagh
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Andre Gide
Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love, and hope. And the transcendence that redeems.
Andre Dubus
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
Andre Gide
I'm sad to sense that she may be evaporating into obscurity, because she's enormously important as a writer and as an influence on other writers and other artists.
Frank Galati
Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.
Marguerite Duras
If anyone writes a story about us now, that's what they say.
Matthew Caws
It's only been recently that I've become semi-convinced that you can (earn a living as a writer).
Sarah Vowell
Naturally, my wife and friends wanted to know how a financial writer who was knowledgeable about the markets could make that kind of mistake. I don't have a good answer. But I did learn a valuable lesson: Don't try to outguess the market. Decide on your long-term investment strategy, and as long as it's the right strategy for you, stick to it.
Stan Hinden
I think there was a while there when some of the writers were pushing Bobby as being, whatever the polite term is, a sissy, and that went a little too far. I like it better when Bobby's a weird kid who worries Hank, but [Hank] still loves him a lot.
Mike Judge
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
William Gaddis
Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.
James Lee Burke
I'd been in bands for 30 years. When I met Len, I knew that he had it. I had no idea what it was, but his songs really spoke to me. I'm here because I want to be. You know, stories about lost love and broken hearts have been done a million times in country music, but there's a special quality to the way Len writes about it. It touches me, and it touches my soul.
Chris Olsen
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
Max Nordau
When I finish my editor's cut of one show, the dailies for the next show are already coming in. Yet I still have to work with the director, the writer and the producer on the old show while the footage for the new show is coming in.
David Rogers
On Monday, you name a writer from the Washington Post, and he was probably standing in our offices. Before that, probably half of them didn't know how to get here.
Scott Cherry
[The Voice — which is a union shop — has an internal culture that's famously feisty and fractious. When the company recently announced it was cutting writers' pay, senior editor Robert Christgau wrote a letter posted on a popular media Web site vowing,] We at the Voice are not taking this lying down. ... Many believe this is an attempt by management to render the paper more salable.
Robert Christgau
I think every great writer in history has taken a cigar from that humidor, sat down in the Oak Bar and had a good puff.
Deborah Davis
Brought the tone, and he brought it hard and fast. He picked up and carried Sunset, which was really a small film, and made this popcorn piece. It was kind of wobbly for a while. God, there were times I was cursing him out, cursing the writers out. I don't like it when it gets shaky like that.
Pierce Brosnan
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by various essences, until it becomes a great conflagration.
Romain Rolland
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
Ken Follet
The theory is that the hard disc doesn't have to run all the time. Flash-based cache can reduce the number of reads to the hard disc and eliminate a lot of writes.
Richard Walsh
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor
Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.
Tracy Kidder
No one ever writes about it. Condi Rice gets more time with the president than anyone else except his wife.
Armstrong Williams
Winning the Guardian prize is a wonderful reward for any writer. It is such a distinguished award, ... All authors want to know what other authors think of their books and they also like to know what children like, too.
Jacqueline Wilson
[Though Wilson was the most notable playwright of his generation, he doesn't seem to have influenced younger writers. He doesn't have obvious imitators.] It would almost amount to arrogance to try to imitate him, ... His writing is so personal, with its musical rhythms.
Daniel Sullivan
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
We've not seen anything. This is what we envisioned would happen. Everyone knew about (it), and took steps to mitigate the effects. The virus writer is probably running scared. It's great--everybody in the antivirus community helped each other out.
Mark Toshack
First of all, I want to give long overdue respect and recognition to a world-famous, gifted, talented writer. That' s the first thing. I would also like to support and encourage current writers. And I want to create a database at that gathering so that we might come together and network and strengthen each other. And we can rally around a truly accomplished writer.
Mary Hilaire Tavenner
He is probably the premiere mystery writer today. He's our generation's Dashiell Hammett.
Dave Taylor
No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.
John Jakes
The writers needed to, as part of their jobs, take on taboo subject matter.
Adam Levin
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
Don DeLillo
There's a wonderful humanness to it. The writer is a genius. I guess he knew his subject, the Eastern establishment.
Barbara Eden
I never thought I was a writer. My teacher, Ruth Johnson, pulled it out of me.
Rebecca Allen
Now, students and faculty can all learn about this great writer firsthand.
Frank Turner
Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.
Charles Buck
You cannot teach creativity -- how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
Mario Vargas Llosa
We do get generally bad writers, but the best (bad) writing is by good people.
Scott Rice
But this is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they read their first review.
Thomas Fleming
To write the column you have to stay on top of politics and media and go to a lot of stuff. I wanted to go down my writers' hole. I'm just taking a couple of months off [from the Washington Post column].
Tina Brown
If I ask myself how many writers of color are writing in the American theater, it's sad. You could count the writers being supported on two hands.
Ricardo Khan
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
Richard Steele, Sr.
Maya Angelou is a very prolific writer. You can read her stuff down once and sort of walk away, but if you really want to get the richness of what she is saying you have to check it out a couple of times.
Stanley Clarke
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
Beverly Cleary
Theoretically, our writers will come to us with nothing. And they will leave with the first draft of a novel, a portfolio of poems or even the first act of a play. The biggest monster of writing is the first blank 250 pages and the program is here to help confront those challenges.
Roy Burkhead
The first year of the show, none of the writers had children. I think we were writing it for our cats.
Brenda Hampton
I'm not a regular sports writer. You gonna let me in your pool?
Hunter S. Thompson
You know the writer is American? I don't even think she speaks Spanish. So that was good because the director has a lot of Latin roots in her. But I think it is a target to the Latin market because there is a lot of Latin in it. I think anyone could enjoy it because it is very light, simple, funny things. It's a universal language.
Sofia Vergara
Bill Buford has been one of the great fiction editors in the history of the magazine, bringing into our pages countless new voices, ... He has an intelligence and an imagination that has made itself known in the magazine all the time, and I know he will do that, too, as a writer.
David Remnick
John was an incredibly important writer, both in his own right, and as a leading advocate for writers and artists with disabilities. It's a terrible, terrible loss.
Oskar Eustis
Collins is a bald, bland Englishman who writes interchangeably uninteresting songs.
Joe Queenan
Hollywood... damn well won't hire a writer over 40 unless he made his mark when he was under 30. America worships youth. It is reflected everywhere. And because wisdom can ONLY come with age, America is a very immature, unwise country. As reflected in its films.
Dirk Benedict
We're trying to get kids to look at writing and what that creative writer has to do. We want to get kids to be more creative and writing to that purpose, whether it's non-fiction or a fiction piece.
Fran Johnson
Neither Doyle nor Christie ever wrote a book that compares with the novels of P.D. James. Doyle and Christie are genre writers -- clever, yes, but one must suspend considerable disbelief right from the get-go when reading their works. No such acrobatics are necessary with a James novel.
Anita Shreve
DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
Ambrose Bierce
The virus doesn't have any practical application -- it's classic proof-of-concept code, written to show that it is possible to create a cross-platform virus. However, our experience shows that once proof-of-concept code is released, virus writers are usually quick to take the code, and adapt it for their own use.
Kaspersky Lab
This is the way virus writers can upgrade the infected machines. It's like [Microsoft's] Windows update for viruses.
Mikko Hypponen
She mentored many aspiring writers, including Norman Mailer, Eugene O'Neill and Jack Kerouac.
John Stutsman
GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.
Ambrose Bierce
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call the "breaks." In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things -- read and write -- and wait.
Countee Cullen
Congress usually puts aside every budget from the President and will write their own. We will be working with our Congressional delegation as Congress writes their budget, so farmers shouldn't get too worked up until we get to the budget writing committees. This is the first step in a long process.
Bill Bruins
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
John Grisham
People spoil their children all the time. Nobody writes newspaper articles about it.
Connie Wilson
They wanted to revive interest in the whole literary angle of James Bond, to remind the world that, actually, Bond started in books, not the movies. So they approached a number of different writers and, for some reason, decided to go with me, which is nice. Maybe everyone else told them to bugger off.
Charlie Higson
Usually I try not to read that stuff. For someone who writes openly about her life, I have the thinnest skin. I don't like feeling that people don't like me. It makes me very upset.
Ayelet Waldman
When you're dealing with a new writer, at least a writer new to you, you're trying to establish a relationship. And starting off that relationship by making it seem like a passport application isn't the right way to do it.
Ashbel Green
The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
Vita Sackville west
As a writer, Buddy had really established himself as a unique voice, especially on the local scene. He leaves a void I can't imagine anyone filling very easily in either camp, as a musician or a writer.
John D'agostino
There are some good writer/directors in the U.S. as well. In general the writing and directing tend to be separated but I bet that most of the directors have a big effect on the scripts. These days the studios tend to bring in hordes of writers.
Bruce Beresford
Barker was a great writer, a great actor and a great loss to us all. I think God must have needed cheering up.
Ronnie Barker
Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are continually published, their confidence continues to grow.
Jennifer Armstrong
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card
When we feed them, someone writes in a log what they eat so we'll know if they're not eating well and can tell our vet. People go into the shark tank once a week to clean it. They don't bother you. They pretty much go to the other side of the tank.
Lisa Balabanow
He's always happy and very polite and kind, and I'd like people to know how talented myself, my associates, family and friends think he is. He writes religious as well as everyday poetry and even some that begin each line with the letters of a person's name.
Lisa Richardson
He's a great writer, but he's also the first writer-celebrity. His story as an expatriate and as an adventurer competes with his work.
James Carroll
Edwards is a major figure in radio, TV and film, as a writer, producer and a director. He is also a painter and a sculptor. There is no one quite like him in his generation.
Peter Lehman
But the results are unbelievable. Everything has improved with my son. He writes with more ease; his eyes come together now when he reads. He no longer has to twist his head to read. He will tell you it changed his life.
Christine Mccabe
At a time when some of our critics have been quick to writes us off, I intend to reassert our credibility and authority. This movement has been fighting for Liberalism for a century and a half. A great cause is not going to be destroyed in a month and a half.
Sir Menzies Campbell
I'm not the one who writes the lineup.
Mark Kotsay
Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.
John Metcalf
He is a great artist. He may be the finest artist among American writers since William Faulkner and Henry James. There's the endless variety of modes he works in. His style, his stance, his point of view.
Harold Bloom
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
Alex Haley
I worked a lot with the writers. It took the whole school year to put it together. It's a growing publication.
Randy Hussey
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
Sam Shepard
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.
Anthony Burgess
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
Robert Penn Warren
Jacki-O proved you far from a fighter/ ... I'm not gonna come at you, I'm gonna come at your ghost writer.
Foxy Brown
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
Martin Amis
My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.
John Scott
Ric is trying to put that whole one-night stand behind him, but it keeps coming back. The writers keep putting him in Reese's proximity.
Rick Hearst
It feels a little scary for most writers because when you're writing, you're completely in charge – you can say this book is all mine, it's my world. Whether giving over some of that has any monetary value or not, we'll see.
Michael Chabon
I'm excited to share these Lone Surfer stories because I've always wanted to be a writer since I was a little kid, ... It's a big thrill to see the book on the shelf and share these stories.
Davy Rothbart
This is as good or better than any feature script that I've read in the past few years. I think there's less of a stigma now with television. It's all based on the material, and I think filmmakers and writers are less judgmental.
Brett Ratner
One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.
Denise Levertov
He's an important writer for The New Yorker, in the same way Robert Benchley and S.J. Perelman were important.
David Remnick
The idea is that we feel like a community. We do not graduate many students at a time because some of our members might take a session off, but they still come to our free lectures or events that promote any other member's works. No one ever stops being a part of our community. We are all very centered around the philosophy of being a writer support group.
Roy Burkhead
Increasingly, the best writers are writers who have been in one.
Michael Curtis
I was tired of learning about Shakespeare and British writers.
Robert Webb
Lindsay's fine. She's a 19-year-old girl. The writer twisted some of her words. [Lindsay] had said 'I wasn't eating right,' and this interviewer ... everyone has to be labeled, so they tried to label her. Well, it's not about labels. It's about being honest. Lindsay is honest and open ... If Lindsay had a problem, she wouldn't be coming out with four movies in a year.
Dina Lohan
Despite the fact that he certainly would not have had to make a career in teaching given his extraordinary success ... he spent 15 years as a professor at the University of Houston. That kind of spoke to his interest in bringing along young talent. Not only is he a brilliant playwright, but he's also genuinely interested in young writers.
Michael Cadden
You're not a columnist. You're a reporter (who) writes long.
Michael Keaton
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
Eudora Welty
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death-fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.
Edna Ferber
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
Eudora Welty
From the time I was 6 years old I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.
Fannie Flagg
[T]here is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
William Gaddis
Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom.
Jason Zebehazy
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. White
Her work as a writer, spanning so many decades, and still getting things cut, is unparalleled. A lot of the songs she wrote have become standards, although people may not know Cindy Walker wrote them.
Eddie Stubbs
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
Edna O'brien
In July, we have a huge conference for mystery writers, where the best publishers come out looking for new talent. We also have a travel writing conference. Hundreds of people come through this conference and are now working as travel journalists.
Eileen Petrocelli
The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner. A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
Eric Brown
One of the most satisfying writers on the contemporary scene.
Ethan Canin
It sounds great from an institutional standpoint. Maybe the Court could do a better job of persuasion. But it won't come overnight. If Roberts leads by example and writes clearly and talks to his colleagues, it may happen.
Edward Lazarus
I am a writer as well as an actress, and was immediately impressed by the atmosphere and detail of the script. I immediately fell for it.
Eleanor Bron
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To ''Why am I here?'' To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.
Enid Bagnold
You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.
Ernst Lubitsch
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
E. L. Doctorow
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Edna Ferber
It's the perfect show to write on because you get to do everything. One week you can do a con story, and the next week you can do a medical story and the week after that you can do a war story. You can be funny and serious in the same episode. As a writer, it's just been the most amazing opportunity.
Edward Kitsis
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
Elizabeth George
In a town of writers, he really is our poet laureate.
Emmylou Harris
We're a community of music writers, performers and music enthusiasts involved in nontraditional music education.
Eric Ginsberg
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.
Evan Hunter
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow
The music writes itself ... You imagine each person kind of doing what they do and then you just try to stay out of the way.
Edgar Meyer
If a book doesn't grab me in the first chapter, I may not bother with it, ... As writers we're told that you have to catch readers in the first paragraph, but that is easier said than done.
Edwina Currie
No one can give another human being the soul of an artist, the sensibility of a writer, or the passion to put words on paper that is the gift and the curse of those who fashion poetry and prose. But it's ludicrous to suggest and short- sighted to believe that the fundamentals of fiction can't be taught.
Elizabeth George
As much as Oprah would like to see (fact-checking) happen, I think there might be more of an editor and a publisher looking deeply into the writer's eyes. Publishing has never been a science. This is a prime example of how personal and casual it can be.
Elisabeth Scharlatt
Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.
Eric Brown
When I was a poor and struggling writer, I made a vow that if ever I got lucky enough to write full-time, I would never again write at night or on weekends, and I never do. I work from about 10 a.m. to 5 or 6 at night, and then I lock the door to my office and go home to my wife.
Evan Hunter
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.
Eudora Welty
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