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When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it's all universal, if you ca...

Ani DiFranco

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!

Pat Barker

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

Chuck Palahniuk

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that...

Jonathan Kozol

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at ...

Ellie Goulding

I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a...

Orhan Pamuk

Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

Teju Cole

I suggested to her that she start writing. "I can't write at all," she said. "Neither can many bestsellers," I replied. "But that pesky detail didn't stop them.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

[...] I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world.

Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings, 1969-1989

I know nothing of writing books properly. I write in the same manner I live life: one feeling at a time. If this makes me a bad writer, then I might hope to author several bad books.

Awakening Foster Kelly

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a write...

Wole Soyinka

the focus one finds in the grammar books is on the wrong forms, on forms detached from the underlying (or overarching) form that must be in place before any technical terms can be meaningful or alive

How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, .

I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-1965

To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world.

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1980

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

I write because if I don’t let it out of my system, I will die with guilt.

I Want Back My Sparkle!: Breaking the Global Chains of Gender Slavery.

History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.

Janet Flanner's World: Uncollected Writings 1932-1975

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Film Writings, 1965-1967

The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.

Religious and Philosophical Writings of Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

A man who tells you to follow him will turn his followers into his company, while a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem