All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path.… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I write songs, it's my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don't as often feel compelled to write when I'm… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
Some songwriters can just have a notebook and write, write, write. I can't do it like that. I gotta listen to a… — Darrelle Revis Copy Share Image
I would like to do a lot more of it, I feel comfortable with it and basically it's all in the writing.… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,'… — Niccolo Paganini Copy Share Image
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
“In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people, and a lot… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“the only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“It is always good – is it not? – when all that hard work of writing pages is turned into a solid… — Ann Swinfen Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I do not write feelings, emotions i do not write After that day on love anything i do not write My silence… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
My mistake, and it is one I deeply regret, is writing about the person I created in my mind to help me… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.” — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
A good actor just wants to deliver the writing to the audience who've paid that night. There's an agonising desire to get… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions. — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
I don't write for Christians. I write for people. I write so that if a Christian hears my music, they're going to… — Dominic Balli Copy Share Image
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest. — Sara Quin Copy Share Image
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who… — Lori Ann Lesko Copy Share Image
Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles, if I had to. The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
