Well, writing for me had always been my first love and what I leaned on as a way to kind of endure… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“How the excitement comes upon me to tell it all! In the quest of writing, the heart can speed up with anticipation--as… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
As it now stands, I Enoch appears to consist of the following five major divisions: (1) The Book of the Watchers (chaps.… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I got my master's degree and then started working as a production assistant. I was writing my debut film, the crime drama… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
On every new project, I try to write in a different way and see if there's a new side of myself I… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
“An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.” — Geraldine Solon Copy Share Image
I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas. — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I never anticipated that I would be writing a book and never anticipated that people would want to read it and it'd… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play. — David Hare Copy Share Image
I guess I've been blessed with insomnia because I do a lot of my writing at night. Because I don't sleep as… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Sometimes he advertises himself assiduously, writing a few words and then rushing to the talk show to wave his flag. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack” — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I still tell people, 'I'm pretty sure I'm the only 'Star Wars' fan in history to ever break into Skywalker Ranch by… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think I use writing as a catharsis. I feel sometimes that I'd like to share that with people, so Instagram becomes… — Noah Centineo Copy Share Image
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
