I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I've participated at summits where I was the only chef. I was surrounded with thinkers and writers and innovators. — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
I know as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting really excited about writing, and I'm taking guitar and vocal lessons. — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write… — Bijou Phillips Copy Share Image
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
So much Western storytelling comes from Scandinavia. I've read that in the past, storytellers would travel to Iceland and exchange stories. It's… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can listen to music - sometimes there's no choice, especially if I'm out writing at a coffee place. But sometimes… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we… — Quinn Norton Copy Share Image
I started writing things because I don't have anyone to share with or it's hard for me to speak, But the best… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about. — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
If somebody writes something and it's true, you're not gonna be able to prevail and get damages, hear it. — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
For me, the banner that I want to wave in terms of giving a jump start to writers of any gender is… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
I work very closely with my co-writer, Efthimis Filippou. Ideas either start from him or me, and then the other one develops… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important… — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Everyone can write a cliche. What's rare is to write them often and unashamedly enough that people quote it as if it's… — Jimmy Lo Copy Share Image
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
“It's easy to write upcoming scenes in books and television shows. Trusting God to write them in real life is a lot… — Janice Thompson Copy Share Image
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
My life is very busy with a lot of things, and so I don't get uninterrupted time. When I do, I can… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
