Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do… — Donald Davis Copy Share Image
See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I write mainly on trains because when I'm at home I'll be making YouTube videos or editing or just sitting down having… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
I don't go out much. I'm also not promiscuous. If I went out with everyone the press said I did, I'd never… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book,… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“ Ideas for Journal Entries You may find the following ideas useful in beginning your journal or keeping the entries varied. If… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“This world rubs me raw, scours me smooth like an SOS pad put to a grease-caked skillet. And pain: it stabs and… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“A writer of classic prose must simulate two experiences: showing the reader something in the world, and engaging her in conversation.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I think all writing is an attempt to complicate and subvert the dominant narrative. Writing personalizes statistics. It puts a face and… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me my big dream that I would like to achieve is for each book to be better than the books that… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a… — Marilyn Ross Copy Share Image
The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
In the writers' room, I know the difference when someone brushes up against me and makes a sexist crack and when they've… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels! — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody… — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive. — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I believe innately in the human spirit being a powerful and positive thing. And that just comes out, whether you like it… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Life being so short, and the possible books to write so many, it's good to function by night as well as by… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
