I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote,… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I… — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Think of it: a writer actually possesses the power to alter his past, to change what was once experienced as defeat into… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“I was curious and so for fun did analyze and came to the singular conclusion that if the woman you described were… — Stacy Sorrells Copy Share Image
Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
There's a difference between writing, the written word, and music. When you have the blank page it doesn't make a sound, which… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
I'm lucky. I don't have to produce the whole movie. What I've been doing is just coming up with ideas for movies.… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
It was always about the future of writers, and about the way writers are treated in the future, and I think that… — Edward Allen Bernero Copy Share Image
Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I think I sing a few songs, and I sing them well, and one of them is the mob genre, you know,… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman. — Alessandra Stanley Copy Share Image
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul. — David Lehman Copy Share Image
When you finish for the day, write a note reminding yourself of what you plan to do next. This helps you to… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
“I do no damage. This is damage, this.” He picked up a paper from Camille’s desk. “I can’t read your writing, but… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I'll sit for a couple of hours and write and do rewrites, and then I'll read and then I have a little… — Jacob Elordi Copy Share Image
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is… — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
As a songwriter I take a lot of pride in my writing, and 'Things a Man Oughta Know' won ACM Song of… — Lainey Wilson Copy Share Image
If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
