To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“The distinguished dead are clay in the hands of writers, and chance determines the shapes that their characters assume in the books… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Writing is like this-you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm stuck, I really do need that cup of tea, or that chocolate, or a break, or a walk, but… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever… — Natalie Copy Share Image
What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I would struggle to write for just my own voice as it would be pretty limiting on what my tracks are capable… — Illy Copy Share Image
Usually, when you're talking about work with other writers it's because something seriously bad is going on with your work and you've… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
To me, when one is writing sometimes about a very specific subject with very specific people, I feel like if that story… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“I've learned that people clam up if they know I'm Wallis Wallace. So out in public I pretend I'm Mavin Green, just… — Ron Roy Copy Share Image
I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I've always thought, it's the artist that write the songs and make the records. And it's our responsibility to set the tone… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
The purpose of me touring and writing is to create music and nothing else. Its really not about updating people on social… — Ari Hest Copy Share Image
“Most writers might as well write in invisible ink, because if what they’re writing is forgettable, it might as well be invisible… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I always been writing songs since I was, like, six. I was listening to Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Frankie Laine and… — Kyle Copy Share Image
I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I think I write a lot, but it's always a continuous stream of consciousness, I guess. It's a mechanic. It's a discipline… — Olivia Merilahti Copy Share Image
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good.… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
Nurses don't get paid very much. It didn't take long to realize that I could make more as a writer. I loved… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
