I'm far from perfect, there's so many lessons I done learned If money's evil look at all the evil I done earned… — 50 Cent Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, highly rational writers (like Nabokov) write most comfortably in the morning, and mainly intuitive writers write most comfortably… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer,… — Tana French Copy Share Image
That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“No book can be written till it wants to be written, till it shouts to be written, and raises up a persistent… — Jyoti Arora Copy Share Image
“Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I felt that in a way, I hated the writing process so much. It's excruciating, as I'm sure you know, and so… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“It does seem, in other words, not only more difficult for a woman experimental writer to be accepted than for a woman… — Christine Brooke-Rose Copy Share Image
So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.” — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“If you want to write books to get famous, the books will suck.Write books to tell the story you want to tell… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked. — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
If I am going to write a book, which I have done, I think we have to get it right - whatever… — Sven-Goran Eriksson Copy Share Image
We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
“Yes, after every book is finished I decide it is the last one, and then I get an idea in my head… — Patricia Robins Copy Share Image
To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a… — Joe Mande Copy Share Image
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new… — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people… — Berry Gordy Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I don't want to get pigeonholed, and I want to try my hand at anything that excites me. I'm not just a… — Kelly Marcel Copy Share Image
Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories. — Lennie James Copy Share Image
I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Hugely enjoyable and insightfulGosling has produced the perfect combination of rigorous research and lightness of prose to create a book that will… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
