“A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but… — AA Patawaran Copy Share Image
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“When I as reading and writing, I was in that exhilarating place where the life of the imagination is more real than… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been about writing songs and talking to people through them. That's what we do, and that's what we'll… — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
“How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question:… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
“There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I often said that writers are of two types. There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in… — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
“Writing is more than a craft; it is a way of life. Everything you see or do becomes part of what you… — H.P. Oliver Copy Share Image
My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly… — Hal Hartley Copy Share Image
Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how… — Julius Schwartz Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I must not step into too spruce a style for serious matters; and yet I approve not the dull insipid way of… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write. — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought if I was open and honest, it would help the reader to get open and honest, and they also would… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Airplanes”. “It was cool to meet people that liked music as much as I did. As soon as we started writing together,… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face… — Brett Armstrong Copy Share Image
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