“I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God… — St. Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I remember, when I first rapped, I was writing raps. I don't write raps at all; I stopped early. I don't know… — Lil Uzi Vert Copy Share Image
My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same… — Adam Jones Copy Share Image
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character.… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
We have this huge discourse on family in this country, but no one deconstructs it the same way. People talk about "the… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The day it comes out, there's already things that you start to go, 'Oh, I should have done that a little differently.'… — Howie Day Copy Share Image
Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine… — J Tillman Copy Share Image
“With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
“The depressed don’t write books. People who are happy write, people who travel, are in love, and talk and talk with the… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“The proper relationship of a writer to his or her own life is similar to a cook with a cupboard. What the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I feel like the choices you make when you write, when you shoot and when you edit are all connected. I don't… — Ti West Copy Share Image
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Nabokov once said that the price of being a writer was sleepless nights. But, Nabokov added slyly, if the writer doesn’t have… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct. — Frank Whaley Copy Share Image
There are millions of people who think that romance isn't real writing. But the only person who can make you real, make… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I am good at composing but I try to write lyrics. I am too bad at that. I am still trying. You… — Harrdy Sandhu Copy Share Image
The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I was always interested in being a writer. Yet, at the time, it somehow seemed more unfeasible to be a writer than… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to… — Donald Windham Copy Share Image
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas,… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“In writing, as in life, its not the big words that are the problem its the little minds that read them.” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
“When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.” — Kai Strand Copy Share Image
The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's… — Tristen Gaspadarek Copy Share Image
![“David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to the writing. You're only as good as your writing.” quote by Rob Lowe](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/2b2/rob-lowe-855_adapted_david-mamet-tim-kazurinsky-and-denise-de_30397.jpg)
![“You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses. I think for me it's about what you leave out [rather] than what you put in. I'm…” quote by J Tillman](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b33/j-tillman-40960_distillation_you-know-there-s-an-economy-in-lyric-wri_2068675.jpg)
![“The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a new generation that has not grown up with him.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/310/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_the-interesting-thing-writing-about-buck_3168700.jpg)
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