“Can't live without writing. Can't write without reading. Can't read without dreaming. Can't dream without living.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“I owe a huge debt to Anaïs Nin, because I fell into her diaries, essays, and collected letters in my Twenties and… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Much of the message that I try to put across to students is that they have to figure out what they really… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
“Say (O Muhammad SAW to Mankind) If the sea were ink for (writing) the Words of my Lord, surely, the sea would… — Quran Copy Share Image
I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up. And I knew I could, at worst, work as a… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
“But it was Aldo’s pen that became his most forceful tool. He started a newsletter for rangers called the Carson Pine Cone.… — Marybeth Lorbiecki Copy Share Image
I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a… — Heather Armstrong Copy Share Image
A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was curious to me then, as now, the power of the performer over an audience when, in fact, the gift itself… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“I've been getting tired of writing stories in the stars. Maybe we can write something in the good old Arkansas dirt. ~Holly” — Christina Coryell Copy Share Image
When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo… — Lincoln Diaz-Balart Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In response to a letter regarding the writer's lack of religious belief: The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.” — Abigail van Buren Copy Share Image
I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Which is strange - I've always thought of myself as someone who writes out of difficulty. And I did do that, but… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
“Instead of saying, ‘The writing in this scene isn’t good enough,’ you say, ‘Don’t you want people to walk out of the… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
