“Never ever forget that you enlisted in the ranks – you weren’t press ganged or drafted. Nobody owes you anything – least… — T.F. Rigelhof Copy Share Image
I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won.… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I’m not giving advice. I don’t instruct. At my best, I delight. That’s my… — Ron Koertge Copy Share Image
Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing and producing for other artists. Some people save their best songs for their own albums. I'd rather give… — Missy Elliot Copy Share Image
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“If you’re going to love a poet you should know this. Our words are our truths. Our blood hums with verse. We… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I basically have two ways I start writing. Either I'll start with something about myself, or something that happened to me that… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
I was very aware when when I was writing it that 'The Teaches of Peaches' was a really heavy breakup album. In… — Peaches Copy Share Image
Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Whether or not I am a writer,” I wrote, “I have—and this is both my curse and my virtue—cultivated the instinct of… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
When you approach the second half of your life, you start to unconsciously consider what you're passing on. As a writer, that's… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Ball has got a daughter who is a writer. I asked her how her daughter qualified to be one. Mrs. Ball… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I like to write at my cabin up north in Michigan, and I find there are a million other things to do… — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back… — Bebe Rexha Copy Share Image
My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs.… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Writers have no one to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I like films that probe emotional questions and inspire you to get creative and get writing, get draping, painting, cooking, whatever that… — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Im a PAPER, u cn write ur felings, scrible ur angr, use me 2 absorb tears. Dont thrw me after use bt… — Butterfly_Kisses Copy Share Image
Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Simply put: I am an Author with deep passion for the written word. When I read: I want to feel... When I… — Suzanne Steele Copy Share Image
“The safest way to success is to write according to the capacity of the stupidest member of the audience.” — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image