I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
There are two places that are hard to write about. A place like Britain, England in particular, which has been written about… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I'd like to think that my mentors, I've had the highest of education and one thing I've always noted, they were always… — Terrell Suggs Copy Share Image
What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Additionally, Liesl and Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic--not a… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction… — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image
The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent -… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
Long ago, during my apprenticeship in the wine trade, I learned that wine is more than the sum of its parts, and… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
Make your copy straightforward to read, understand and use. Use easy words; those that are used for everyday speech. Use phrases that… — Jay Abraham Copy Share Image
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“In 1922 Woolf met the writer Vita Sackville-West, who was to join Vanessa Bell and Leonard Woolf as the most significant people… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
More than anything, I write about what I know. The experiences that I've had in my life and that we've all had… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down… — Heather O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. — Barry Schuler Copy Share Image
Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about… — Lee Brice Copy Share Image
I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What… — Dreezy Copy Share Image
My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I have a thing - I call it magic - but I feel like I can write stuff down in the middle… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
“We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school… — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
“Who was Hitler?’ I said. Tyrena smiled slightly. ‘An Old Earth politician who did some writing. Mein Kampf is still in print… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
“To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I've been preparing [Chinese Zodiac] for seven years, spent seven years on writing the script, spent over a year on filming it. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back… — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
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