There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
“This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
A precondition for being a science fiction writer other than an interest in the future is that, an interest - at least… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
“The first impression of the writings of Mr. J. J. Rousseau received by a knowledgeable reader, who is reading for something more… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I have comedy chops. I guess you get lucky with good writing because I don't think I'm a comedian… — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I take out my pen and paper. I'd write how much I love you. I'd write just what you make me do,… — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
“Writing is my dream. From romance to dragons; fairies to fantasy worlds, this is where I live and play. Thanks be to… — Lisa Hannah Wells Copy Share Image
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to… — Avi Kaplan Copy Share Image
The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
“There's a very thin line that separates readers and writers. You make a leap over that line when there’s a book you… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our… — Valerie Miner Copy Share Image
I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot of sad songs, and I got to the point where I was like, 'You can't write another… — Dean Lewis Copy Share Image
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“Intent and dreaming is nice but its not, will never be enough. If you want something bad enough in life then you… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!),… — Ken Hill Copy Share Image
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
