I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.
So many people are not aware that NPR writes things, 'posts' things. But we are spreading the word.
That's the thing: once it's in their hands, it's not my book anymore, it's theirs. I have no idea what happens when they start to digest it. So when someone writes me to explain how they read it, what it was like, what they enjoyed, there's a thrill. Writers who don't make their email addresses public are missing out on something wonderful.
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
A novelist, poet and playwright who writes equally well in Shona and English, Charles Mungoshi is Zimbabwe's finest and most versatile writer. His life project has been to interrogate the notion of family.
Everybody writes a book too many.
A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.
Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'
Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.
I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes.
My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan.
I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot and try to put their voices into their character.
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.
Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.