“Nothing is easier than to find some individuals—in any group—who share a given writer’s opinion, and to quote such individuals as if… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
“Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you’re… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated… — Harold Ross Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
In Pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
I know that in writer's rooms across North America, there are still conversations about how much is too much when it comes… — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“I write from the heart and do not edit and edit ... my works (music or writing). Although most writers do, and… — Alexzander Beck Copy Share Image
I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
“Writers pay a lot of attention to wordage, because some publishers seem to care more about length than about quality and will… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
The first season of 'Human Target' was to me the pinnacle of my career as a composer. It pushed me to become… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I just write a little bit on piano. I'm not by any stretch of the means even a good piano player. I… — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it.… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
“I always say to people who want to write: Live life! Don't stand on the rim, don't sit on the sidelines. Make… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
If you have something to say, here's what you do: You write it down on a piece of paper, you go out… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I'm outside, writing, I'm also inside, experiencing, and it can… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with… — Eric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“O, it ended in my having nothing to say, when I sat down to write. But sometimes, when I get hold of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists. — Sunny Copy Share Image
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I… — Matt Sorum Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure. — Assia Djebar Copy Share Image