It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
“I will no longer let the fear of vicious comments or replies stop me from speaking what I believe to be right.… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
I get inspired by what I go through. Experiencing all these different things we all go through like heartache, falling in love,… — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call.… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
We really enjoy that, having a relationship with writers, developing material and getting a director, actors, that we have kind of that… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals.… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book, and… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
“It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.” — George G. Williams Copy Share Image
I always try, if I can, to travel before I start a writing project. For me, travelling is my education. It inspires… — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now… — Kathy Valentine Copy Share Image
That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I mean, truly, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and if you can't spot that CM Punk… — Paul Heyman Copy Share Image
What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I think my goal is to find a way to spend all of my time writing. I mean, sort of; true success… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The Difference between Writers and Editors. Writers are creative using one end of a pencil. Editors are more adept using the opposite… — Roy A Higgins Copy Share Image
I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool. — John Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
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