The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. — William Styron Copy Share Image
“I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“The chronic fun of writing, the distraction of it, was not knowing.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies. — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of… — Tracy McMillan Copy Share Image
I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you… — Jay Reatard Copy Share Image
See, I am not a writer. 'Nach Baliye' has its own creative team and a brilliant one at that. But I will… — Upasana Singh Copy Share Image
I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites… — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“A picture is worth 1,000 megapixels. High-definition (HD) TV images are used to camouflage some writers' low-definition (LD) vocabulary.” — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The evasion of justice within academia is all the more infuriating because the course of sexual harassment is so predictable. Since I… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan,… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
If I begin a poem, "I am a donkey," reason kicks in and says, "She is taking on the persona of a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“Want to be a great communicator? Try writing a screenplay. Even if your story is more hideous than the films Ishtar and… — Bill McGowan Copy Share Image
