That awkward moment When you are busy writing a rather long but important article and you start approaching the word limit of… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist,… — Plato Copy Share Image
In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I find that one of the most important things, as a writer, is to just show up - to just stay in… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“It is a glorious thing, to be able to write with pen on paper instead of nail or hook into oak, to… — Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
I think people always have - not just journalists who help their careers, I think all people struggle with this idea that… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I had some great music teachers who were men, but I think there's something about having these master teachers who were women… — Quiara Alegria Hudes Copy Share Image
I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a… — Antara Mali Copy Share Image
“Writing has taught me that the frontier isn’t always a place. Sometimes it’s a season of your life. The space between who… — Dustin Lee Copy Share Image
I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz - the… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out and connect with you. Great… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
I don't talk about feelings, but I write a lot about feelings. Reading, that's feminine; writing, that's feminine. It is insane -… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A little mixture of happiness and bliss is all is take to resist the sins of reenacting what you thought you've crossed… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
If anyone was going to write a song or, you know, or a book, or make a film about a girl like… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“You know what they say about writers: we can do it quietly, in many different positions, and all night long.” — Christopher D. Votey Copy Share Image
The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure. — Tim Kring Copy Share Image
Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil. — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
