“When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out… — Richard B. Knight Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to… — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“For a writer it was perhaps most important not to write, but to read. Read as much as you can because in… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
“History that is presented only as ink-embalmed data is as a flower pressed in a book. Although the dry petals still hold… — Rex Alan Smith Copy Share Image
I like to write from my life and the relationships that make it up. I think its important to use music to… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
One thing that's nice about writing a book about food is - unless it's from a specific place - you can revisit… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
I come from a production assistant background. That was my first role on a set before even being an actor, that and… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits… — Amanda Perez Copy Share Image
Someone had asked me who I thought was better, John Cena or Rock. I said Rock needs a teleprompter. Rock needs a… — Randy Orton Copy Share Image
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I saw the poet in you when it was obvious that your type of women were all broken and were those who… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is… — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song.… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I started writing books and making clothes for my dolls when I was around 10 as a way of making my reality… — Kerli Copy Share Image
I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall.… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
“...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I was always writing - whether it's ideas, poems, whatever - because we spent so much time in the car traveling from… — Mickie James Copy Share Image
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
I was a die-hard, obsessed fan of Michael Jordan. I'd take his posters with me to away meets, I'd walk out on… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to… — David Simon Copy Share Image
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
