I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible. — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.” — Isaac Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events.… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist… — Frank Wildhorn Copy Share Image
I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I wrote her story because she wanted to live forever and I loved her far more with every word, too much! Even… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“I opened a writing app and began typing what I knew about Pierce. Vain . Terminal fear of T-shirts or any other… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy.… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
“What exactly is the new verse movement? The New Verse Movement of the 1910's was to make poetry relevant again by immersing… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact… — Marissa Nadler Copy Share Image
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image