I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do… — Angela Yee Copy Share Image
Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing songwriters and recording artists, and so… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that. — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
Of course, life experience changes and adds to writing. And observations change too, where you put yourself in relation to other people. — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
“As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is… — George Sand Copy Share Image
America is the big subject of the second half of the 20th century, tackled in one form or another by all the… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. They knew how… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I would have done anything. I just really love the Duplass brothers. I was at a place where I was desperate for… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it. — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t really a journal. I tried keeping a journal, but it would always be one long entry filling the first seven… — Charlotte Leonetti Copy Share Image
I write things that I love I write things that I hate but the problem with what I write is I poorly… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for.… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
When you're writing a screenplay, it's like you're dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I like to get produced. I'm not saying I write to be commercial, I mean "Hazelwood High" they light a girl on… — Rob Urbinati Copy Share Image
The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image