Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will need someth….

I have come from France more firmly convinced than ever that Negros should write Negro music. We have our own racial feeling and if we try to copy wh….

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water..

My Peace I leave with you.

I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as ….

In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration….

Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story – what happens before ….

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for in….

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedig….

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like th….

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing..

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon..

[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins ….

the more you live the more things reflect all around you!!!!.

A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already..

There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you d….

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write a….

When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, ….

Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to….

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing..

I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the ….