Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full… — Natalie MacLean Copy Share Image
“Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
My favorite process is writing, from day one. The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.” — Jane Hersey Copy Share Image
“If you don’t want to be forgotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing”. – Benjamin Franklin” — Rishi Kumar Copy Share Image
“Writers used to be treated (except for the few brand name authors) as the bottom rung of the food chain. We were… — Bob Mayer Copy Share Image
Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
This Book had to be written by one of three people: good men, bad men or God. It couldn't have been written… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The idea of writing, to me, was, from the beginning, was writing something which was a little different from the ordinary exchange… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
They say that to be a writer you must first have an unhappy childhood. I don't know if unhappiness is necessary, but… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
“Writing word after word represents a type of power, the sort of command that a person amasses slowly with thoughtful inquiry.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I tried to write backwards so I could take a picture of it and the word not be backwards in the picture… — Cassandra Crosby Copy Share Image
Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book. — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I can't wait for the rest of my career to meet these young writers and filmmakers so that I can produce and… — Lil Rel Howery Copy Share Image
God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
“Oddly, the highly productive writer found writing wearing. “My botherations often won’t let me work,”11 he complained. He” — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
“Authors...keep writing those great books for children and teens. It's a proven fact that those children & teens who read are less… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“I don't write for money or for my words to be read. I write because it takes me to dark corners in… — Zachary Koukol Copy Share Image
When I want to put out an album, I want to write it. I want to be able to say that I… — Jimmy Bennett Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I'm about to lock it so I'ma write this letter Was your day okay? Is your mother better? I'ma put this bid… — Tony Yayo Copy Share Image
My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear -… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes. — Donald McKay Copy Share Image
The more songs I've written, the more I've grown interested in telling a story. When I first began, I had this list… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
“When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she narrates her actions inside her head in third-person. Does that make her a writer or a woman?” — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and… — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image