Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't… — Gavid Hood Copy Share Image
Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Writing is both my expression to the world and my way to hide from it - you get who I am without… — Paige Copy Share Image
install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
“You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know… — Kamal Ravikant Copy Share Image
“I think there really is no other way to write a long, serious novel. You work, shelve it for a while, work,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
I used to think that if I was ever so lucky as to get a book deal that I would write all… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Usually I will hear a sample, think of a theme and then it will take me a couple of days to write… — Princess Superstar Copy Share Image
“When we think about how to move our students into deeper levels of reading, it is helpful to remember an expression that… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
The Russian myth that they broadcast to the world, and have their various surrogates in the West repeat, is that somehow the… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas,… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Why does any novelist keep writing long after they've made money? Because they've failed to write the perfect novel. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Don't sacrifice what you want most for what you want now. Write down what you want most and see it often. — Peter Vidmar Copy Share Image
Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any… — Alan Brewer Copy Share Image
Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I like to think each writer is doing his or her part. Feeding the lake, as Jean Rhys said. And maybe there… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write. — Julie Salamon Copy Share Image
When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
The first rule of improv is 'Never say no.' Use it when co-writing. To co-write, you need to be willing to be… — Chuck Cannon Copy Share Image
Once I write something, I never try to write that same style again, because I get very schizophrenic musically. — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
“Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
“There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess… — Caleb Shomo Copy Share Image
It's important for the writers of the presidential daily brief to feel comfortable that the documents will never be politicized and/or unnecessarily… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
