Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process. — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
“Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words… — Timothy Schaffert Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a noun, it’s a verb. Writing is not a destination, it’s a journey. You should not write to accomplish… — Rodney L. Carlson Copy Share Image
Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“philosophical writers after his time: nor again must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
I keep a journal, like many writers do. It helps in writing a story, as you can use an incident from the… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
“We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“If only I wouldn’t take this book so seriously. It is just a book after all, and a book is very dead… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Among religious writings the Bible is unique in its attitude to its great men. Even many Christian biographies puff up the men… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“I believe in the power of words- be they for good or evil. I am a writer. Its power is all the… — Clarissa Cartharn Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder if writers don’t choose to love long-distance, a sure way of blending passion and prose. The love letter… — Cathy N. Davidson Copy Share Image
Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Love with writing began from school days itself and with passage of time my bond with it went on becoming stronger. — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
When I first started writing music, it was to express that. I was trying to find God and trying to find meaning… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
“Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion. — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Marian Palaia is a writer of startling grace and sensuous lyricism - reading her, you feel as if you've never heard language… — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
History is a sacred kind of writing, because truth is essential to it, and where truth is, there God himself is, so… — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
